June; the Rainy Season
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- japancoll
$300–$3,000. Common folk art prints: $300–$800. Key value factors: Mori's cheerful folk art prints are affordably priced. His stencil technique (kappazuri) is distinctive.
June — The Rainy Season (tsuyu) presents the month of Japan's plum rains — the weeks of steady, soft precipitation that signaled the transition from spring to summer and gave the Japanese landscape a particular quality of moist, overcast beauty. The rainy season was associated with hydrangeas, snails, frogs, and the particular social and sensory qualities of life conducted under umbrellas and in rain-cleaned streets. Mori's rendering likely depicted figures in the rain or the atmospheric quality of the rainy season's distinctive light, his bold stencil colors softened or modified to capture the grey tones of the tsuyu.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
June; the Rainy Season was created by Yoshitoshi Mori (森義利).
June; the Rainy Season depicts seascapes and rain.
