Rain Prints (409)
Rainy weather and atmospheric scenes (ame) in Japanese woodblock prints. Rain prints are prized for their technical virtuosity — depicting falling rain with fine carved lines and creating reflections on wet surfaces through layered printing.
Artists Known for Rain

After the Rain - Ameagari
Not set
Woodblock print

Rain and Roofs
1977
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Cat in the Rain (Ame ni Neko)
Woodblock print

Shower
Woodblock print

Night Rain at Karasaki (Karasaki no yoru no ame), from the series Eight Views of Omi in Etching Style (Doban Omi hakkei)
1804/16
Color woodblock print; horizontal koban

Shower Below the Summit (Sanka hakuu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Woodblock print

Night Rain at Karasaki (Karasaki no yau), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei no uchi)"
c. 1834
Color woodblock print; oban

Oiso: Tora's Rain (Oiso, Tora ga ame), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido
c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; oban

Night Rain
Woodblock print

Diary: June 24 ’78
June 1978
Screenprint

Umbrellas
Woodblock print

Hydrangeas
July 1929
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Umbrellas
1915
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Bi Bob Puddle Hop
Not set
Woodblock print

After the Storm
Woodblock print

Umbrella
1935
Woodblock print

Ameshiro
Woodblock print

Umbrellas
2003
Woodblock print

Before the Storm
1915
Color woodblock print

Windy day, umbrella
Woodblock print

Before a Thunderstorm
March 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

The Dark Cloud
Wash painting on paper

Nagaura Kaido no Ame
Woodblock print

Kitsuneame
Woodblock print

Ame no Goro (4/40)
Woodblock print

Tokyo Shin-O-Hashi ame-chu zu
Woodblock print

Ameshiro
Woodblock print

Yanagiwara ya-u
Woodblock print

Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)
Woodblock print

Cock Eyeing a Free-standing Screen Painted with Cock, Hen, and Chicks, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō), vol. 1
probably 1813
Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 3: Mountain Dove and Peach Flowers
ca. 1820
Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

Ameshiro
Woodblock print

Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima)
Woodblock print

HAREMA (Interval of Clear Weather)
Woodblock print

Peony in Rain
early 20th century
Color woodblock print

KATASHIGURE (It rains off and on)
Woodblock print

Umbrella
Woodblock print

Chapter 2 - Hahakigi
Woodblock print

Thunder in the Farming Land
Not set
Woodblock print

Lightning (Inazuma)
Woodblock print

Hahakigi
Woodblock print

Chapter 2 - Hahakigi
Woodblock print
Intervals between Rain
Etching with chine colle

Thunder and Showers
Woodblock print

Rain Night
Woodblock print
Night Shower at Izumi Bridge
Woodblock print
Ame (Rain)
Woodblock print

Aiaigasa (Sharing an Umbrella)
Woodblock print

Cherry Blossom Rain
1905
Color woodcut on paper

Rain Song 4
2018
Intaglio

Rain B
1954
Woodblock print

Summer Shower
2025
Watercolour and collage

Garden Project--Wood, Paper, Fire and Rain--Between Vertical and Horizon
1986
Color woodcut

After the Rain
1986
Color woodcut

Rainy Long Journey
2015
Archival Pigment Print

Spring Rain
2014
Chinese brush painting

Forecast: Rain, Locally Heavy at Times
2018
Reductive Linocut Relief Print

Rain Garden
Mokuhanga on two panels

Rain Icon
Mokuhanga on gesso on board with resin coating

Autumn Rain Shower at Yakushiji
2019
Woodblock on washi paper
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Frequently Asked Questions
Rainy weather and atmospheric scenes (ame) in Japanese woodblock prints. Rain prints are prized for their technical virtuosity — depicting falling rain with fine carved lines and creating reflections on wet surfaces through layered printing.
Kawase Hasui, Shiro Kasamatsu, and Kobayashi Kiyochika are among the artists most associated with rain in our collection. Browse the full list of artists who explored this subject above.
Hanga currently catalogues 409 prints tagged with rain, spanning ukiyo-e, shin-hanga, and sōsaku-hanga traditions where applicable.



