Evening Rain at Karasaki, from the series Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakk

A woodblock print shows slanting rain over a lakeshore village of low wooden houses beneath a clump of pines on a headland. A dark mountain rises behind the water, and blue bands of lake occupy the foreground under a grey sky.

Look closer: A small red seal and a column of calligraphy sit in the upper left sky.

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Date

ca. 1834–35

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3794 × 2972 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1919