Night Rain
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Chazen Museum of Art
Rain falls in this undated nocturne, a generalised atmospheric study in the intersection of precipitation and darkness that Kiyochika explored repeatedly throughout his career. The absence of a specific location in the title places this among his more abstract atmospheric exercises — images that prioritise the sensory experience of weather over topographic documentation. Diagonal rain lines across a dark ground, with light sources — lanterns, reflections — breaking the darkness, was among the most demanding technical challenges in the nishiki-e medium.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Night Rain was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親).
Night Rain depicts night scenes and rain.
