After the Storm
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
The storm has passed and the landscape reasserts itself — sky clearing, branches still dripping, the air sharpened by rain into unusual clarity. Shotei renders the after-storm moment with the careful observation of atmospheric transition that distinguished his best work: the world not yet quite returned to normal, the evidence of the storm still present in wet ground and weighted branches while the light begins to recover its warmth. The subject was a staple of Japanese landscape art precisely because it captured impermanence in its most physically immediate form.
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Frequently Asked Questions
After the Storm was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
After the Storm was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
After the Storm depicts landscapes, rain, and trees.