Night Rain at Karasaki, from Eight Views of Ōmi (c. 1835): Art, History and Details

Night Rain at Karasaki, from Eight Views of Ōmi (c. 1835) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The sacred Karasaki Pine was a famous sight on the shores of Lake Biwa. Its branches, supported by a framework of bamboo poles, sheltered a shrine beneath. The poem on this print reads as follows: Yielding to the sound in the evening rain, and drawing near to the evening wind, he grows famous, the pine tree of Karasaki. —Translation by Matthi Forrer

Object facts

• Title: Night Rain at Karasaki, from Eight Views of Ōmi
• Date: c. 1835
• Creator attribution: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Print
• Technique: color woodblock print
• Dimensions: 24.4 x 36.8 cm (9 5/8 x 14 1/2 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1985.312

A detail from the museum

The rain is represented by fine, printed vertical lines.

Collection credit

The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Checklist of the Kelvin Smith Bequest.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 7 (September 1988): 292–295.

View the collection record

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