Sudden shower at Koume
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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.
A sudden summer shower — the kind that falls from an isolated cloud while the rest of the sky remains blue — drenches the Koume district of eastern Tokyo without warning. Shotei's treatment captures the dramatic transition from dry to wet, the rain's arrival visible as a curtain moving across the scene, the figures below scrambling for shelter. The Koume district along the Sumida River was already semi-rural by the twentieth century, and the shower scene gives the area's lingering agricultural character an additional atmospheric dimension.
1962
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
c. 1833-36
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Ame no Omiya
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Sudden shower at Koume was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Sudden shower at Koume was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Sudden shower at Koume depicts rain.
