（不忍池畔の雨）

Titled （不忍池畔の雨）, 'Rain at the Shore of Shinobazu Pond,' this print depicts one of Tokyo's most historically significant landscape sites, the shallow lotus-covered pond within Ueno's grounds. Kiyochika returned repeatedly to rain, mist, and wet conditions as subjects because they amplified the atmospheric dissolution of form that his kosen-ga practice sought. Rain at Shinobazu would allow him to deploy diagonal precipitation lines—a conventional device in the woodblock tradition—alongside reflective water surfaces and blurred distant forms, creating a composition in which the familiar meisho subject is reinterpreted through a post-Hiroshige atmospheric lens. The bokashi gradations across sky and water, and the layering of grey tones to evoke a rainy overcast, would have required careful registration across multiple printing blocks.