Spring Shower

A third variant in Kotozuka's Spring Shower sequence, this print likely approaches the subject from a different vantage point or at a different moment in the shower — heavier rain, clearing light, or a view down a temple path rather than outward into a garden. The multiplicity of prints under the same title in Kotozuka's self-published practice reflects the Japanese aesthetic of serial variation: returning to a motif across seasons, light conditions, and compositional framings. Technically, the challenge in each variant is achieving the right weight of rain lines — too dense and the scene becomes murky, too sparse and the atmosphere disappears. Gradated color under wet-looking foliage would anchor the seasonal reading.