From Hiroshige's Hoeido Tokaido (1833–34), considered his greatest achievement and among the finest landscape print series in Japanese art. The Hoeido edition is worth many times more than Hiroshige's later Tokaido series. Early impressions show the distinctive crisp bokashi gradation that later wears away.
One of the most celebrated prints in the entire Hoeido Tokaido series, "Shono: Driving Rain" captures travelers caught in a sudden downpour on the road approaching Shono station. Diagonal lines of rain slash across the composition, bending the tall bamboo grove and sending figures scrambling with umbrellas and rush coats. The print, made around 1833–36 using the nishiki-e polychrome technique, distills the experience of travel in all its vulnerability to weather.
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.
Shōno: Driving Rain (Shōno hakuu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tōkaidō or Great Tōkaidō was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) in c. 1833-36.
Yes — Shōno: Driving Rain (Shōno hakuu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tōkaidō or Great Tōkaidō is part of the The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido series (print 46 of 55) by Utagawa Hiroshige.
Shōno: Driving Rain (Shōno hakuu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tōkaidō or Great Tōkaidō depicts landscapes, rain, and tōkaidō.
Shōno: Driving Rain (Shōno hakuu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tōkaidō or Great Tōkaidō measures 25.2 × 36.7 cm (Oban format).
