Evening Rain in Azuma Wood

Rain slants across a wooded shore beside a calm, grey river, where a row of trees and a distant torii gate stand under a heavy sky. A figure with an oiled-paper umbrella walks the embankment path in the lower left, and an inscribed poem column fills the upper left.

Look closer: A torii gate half hidden among the trees on the far shore.

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Date

ca. 1838

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3853 × 2497 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry L. Phillips Collection, Bequest of Henry L. Phillips, 1939