Shotei produced a wide range of subjects throughout his career under publishers Watanabe and Daikokuya. Signed, sealed lifetime editions consistently outperform unsigned export-market copies.
Rain falls through a landscape of extraordinary atmospheric depth — the foreground wet and glistening, the middle distance softened by the rain curtain, the background dissolved into grey-green mist where land and sky become indistinguishable. Shotei's rainy landscape compositions used the [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) technique to capture the quality of visual experience in heavy rain, where the constant motion of falling water reduced the world to a series of overlapping tonal zones. The subject was a staple of his practice precisely because rain enabled the most atmospheric effects the woodblock medium could produce.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Rainy Landscape was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Rainy Landscape uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Rainy Landscape was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Rainy Landscape depicts landscapes and rain.
