Night Rain
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- ukiyo-e.org
Description
Rain falls in darkness — a black night split by the sound and movement of water — in this atmospheric print that treats rain and darkness as inseparable conditions. Kasamatsu's night rain scenes are among his most formally bold, requiring the composition to function with almost none of the visual information that daylight provides. The image likely reduces the scene to a few tonal zones: the dark sky, the illuminated surfaces wet with rain, and the rain itself rendered as diagonal striation or moving blur.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Night Rain was created by Shiro Kasamatsu (笠松紫浪).
Night Rain uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on woodblock print.
Night Rain was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Night Rain depicts night scenes and rain.