Spring Rain at Yushima Tenjin Shrine

Rain falls at dusk over a shrine courtyard rendered almost entirely in indigo-blue tones, viewed from beneath the deep eaves of a wooden pavilion whose thick support pillars frame the scene. Two figures cross the wet stone pavement in the middle distance, one wearing a pale conical hat, the other carrying a dark umbrella, while bare-branched trees and a lantern with a lit interior stand along the courtyard's edge; at lower right, pigeons or doves cluster on and beside a wooden structure. Shiro Kasamatsu's 1935 color woodblock print "Spring Rain at Yushima Tenjin Shrine" balances the covered foreground in near-silhouette against the misty, rain-streaked courtyard beyond.