Autumn Showers (Shigure), frontispiece illustration from the literary magazine Bungei kurabu 10, no. 13

A woman with an elaborate black coiffure ornamented with a pink rose bends her head over an open newspaper printed with columns of Japanese text spread across her lap, one hand resting on the page and the other holding a folded white paper poised at her lips; she wears a pale kimono patterned with a gray lattice and small floral motifs, a blue-gray collar, and a maroon under-robe and obi. In the upper left, a separate framed inset on a cream ground shows soldiers in dark uniforms and peaked caps clashing with raised swords among telegraph poles and wires, with more uniformed figures in a boat below amid gray washes of smoke or mist. Suzuki Kason, Autumn Showers (Shigure), 1904 — woodblock print in ink and color on paper, a frontispiece illustration from the literary magazine Bungei kurabu, volume 10, number 13; a red seal and black calligraphic signature appear at lower left against the sage-green ground.