Rain falling on the grand Higashi Honganji Temple complex creates the atmospheric conditions Asano renders most skillfully — streaks of precipitation, glistening surfaces, and muted tones punctuated by dark architectural silhouettes. Prices for this composition generally range from $150-$500. The Honganji temples are among Kyoto's most imposing structures, and the rain only amplifies their grandeur.
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.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Rain at Higashi Honganji Temple (東本願寺雨) was created by Takeji Asano (浅野竹二) in ca. 1950s.
Rain at Higashi Honganji Temple uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on woodblock print.
Rain at Higashi Honganji Temple was published by Unsodo (ca. 1950s).
Rain at Higashi Honganji Temple depicts temples & shrines and rain.
