Rain at Kiyomizu Temple (Translation)
Souvenirs of Travel II (Series Title)
川瀬巴水 旅みやげ第二集：雨の清水寺 大正十年二月廿五日 木版画 (Primary Title)
Rain at the Kiyomizu temple (Alternate Title)
Kiyomizu Temple in Rain (Donor's Title)
Tabi miyage dai nishu, Ame no Kiyomizudera
(Transliterated Title)
Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, Japanese, 1883 - 1957 (Artist)
Watanabe Shōzaburō 渡邊庄三郎, Japanese, 1885 - 1962 (Publisher)
Kiyomizu Temple, literally “the temple of clear spring,” was built in the 8th century atop a small mountain on the eastern side of Kyoto, offering a bird’s-eye view of the city. Here, Hasui depicts a temple hall leading to a vast veranda, where a lonely woman holding an umbrella gazes beyond the foliage-covered hills. The artist uses fine vertical lines and dark colors to re-create a melancholy rainy day at the temple, and applies a blue band along the distant hills signaling clear skies to come.
Taisho period (1912-1926)
巴水 Hasui
Artist's seal; Publisher's seal Watanabe Shōzaburō
大正十. 二. 廿五. 旅みやげ第二集：雨の清水寺
René and Carolyn Balcer Collection
1979渡辺／川瀬巴水…062／大正十年二月廿五日 旅みやげ第二集 ワタナベ 1 雨の清水寺
©artist or artist’s estate
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