Rain at Higashi Honganji Temple

Rain at Higashi Honganji Temple, dated to the early 1950s, is one of Asano's multiple engagements with this monumental Kyoto temple in rainy conditions. The enormous Goeido hall, with its vast roof and broad stone approach, presented him with an architectural subject of extraordinary scale that rain transformed in particular ways — darkening the wood, reflecting in the stone, and adding a vertical texture of falling water that modified the massive horizontal dominance of the building's profile. This version likely represents a different viewing moment or compositional approach than his companion Higashi Hongan-ji rain prints.