Rain Prints (378)
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

Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido: no. 46, Shono, White Rain (Tokaido gojusan tsugi: Shono)
Woodblock print

Rain Storm
Woodblock print

Quiet Rain
Woodblock print

Quiet Rain- LE
Woodblock print

AMEAGARI (After Rain)
Woodblock print

HAREMA (lull in the rain)
Woodblock print

KATASHIGURE (Drizzle)
Woodblock print

Sunshine after Rain
Woodblock print

BLACK CROW IN RAIN
Woodblock print

Crown in Rain on Plum Branch
Woodblock print

Akashicho After the Rain
Woodblock print

Arakawa in Rain
Woodblock print

Kiyomizu in rain
Woodblock print

Kumamoto Castle in Samidare (Rain in May)
Woodblock print

May Rain- Arakawa — 五月雨(荒川)
Woodblock print

Morning Rain at Asakusa — 浅草の朝の雨
Woodblock print

Nissaka in Rain, Nissaka on Tokaido
Woodblock print

Okutama in Rain
Woodblock print

Okutama in the Rain
Woodblock print

Rain at Ohmiya
Woodblock print

Rain at Shuzen-ji, Izu, Shôwa period, dated 1933
Woodblock print

Rain at Shuzenji
Woodblock print

Rain in Maekawa, Söshü
Woodblock print

View of Yotsuhashi in rain
Woodblock print

Clear Weather after Rain at Zenkoji in Kawaguchi
Woodblock print

Rain on the outskirts of a town
Woodblock print

Peony in Rain
Woodblock print

View of Yotsuhashi in rain, from
Woodblock print

Sand Garden after Rain, Shôwa period, dated 1958
Woodblock print

Rain in Green Season
ca. 2009
Etching and aquatint, chine-collé

Eastern Rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Autumn Rain Shower at Yakushiji
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

September - autumn rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Boat In a storm
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Senju Ohashi in the Rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Purple rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Rain on Izumi Bridge
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

October Autumn rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Rain of the fifth month
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Rain No
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Rain in Miyajima
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Egrets In rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Fine rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Fine rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Rain outside the village
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Mt. Moiwa in the rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Wind And rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Night Rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Spring rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Shinobazu Pond in spring rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

After the rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Katayama harbor in the rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Summer Rain, frontispiece
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

After the rain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

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Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain (Amagoi), from the series "The Seven Fashionable Aspects of Komachi (Furyu yatsushi nana Komachi)"
c. early 1760s
Color woodblock print; hosoban
![No. 20: Rain on the Hiratsuka Plain near Kutsukake Station (Niju: Kutsukake no eki, Hiratsukahara uchu no kei), from the series "[Sixty-nine Stations of the] Kisokaido (Kisokaido [rokujukyu tsugi no uchi])" by Keisai Eisen](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/f09d79df-02f5-a8d0-97f6-00130281a62a/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
No. 20: Rain on the Hiratsuka Plain near Kutsukake Station (Niju: Kutsukake no eki, Hiratsukahara uchu no kei), from the series "[Sixty-nine Stations of the] Kisokaido (Kisokaido [rokujukyu tsugi no uchi])"
c. 1835/36
Color woodblock print; oban

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

A Contemporary Parody of Komachi Prays for Rain (Tosei yatsushi Amagoi Komachi)
c. 1792
Color woodblock print; oban

Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 3: Sparrows and Dandelions
ca. 1820
Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on 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 Takahashi Shotei 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 378 prints tagged with rain, spanning ukiyo-e, shin-hanga, and sōsaku-hanga traditions where applicable.



