June; the Rainy Season
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- japancoll
Description
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
June; the Rainy Season was created by Yoshitoshi Mori (森義利).
June; the Rainy Season depicts seascapes and rain.