Night Rain in Kyoto- watercolour
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
Night rain on Kyoto's streets — rendered here in watercolour — captures the distinctive quality of the old city in wet weather: the reflections of paper lanterns and shop lights in the wet stone pavement, the sound of rain on tile roofs, the silhouettes of umbrellas moving through narrow lanes. Kotozuka's watercolour treatment of this subject would handle the reflective quality of rain-wet surfaces with the medium's characteristic transparency, the washes of color suggesting the dissolved, reflected world of a rainy Kyoto night.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Night Rain in Kyoto- watercolour was created by Kotozuka Eiichi (琴塚英一) in Not set.
Night Rain in Kyoto- watercolour depicts night scenes and rain, set at Kyoto.