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Color woodblock print of pine trees and a stone embankment beside a lake in diagonal rain, with distant hills and a red border.

Night Rain at Karasaki (Karasaki no yoru no ame), from the series Eight Views of Omi in Etching Style (Doban Omi hakkei)

A color woodblock print showing a rainy landscape with diagonal rain streaks over a lake shore. Pine trees bend over a stone embankment at right, with rocky hills and a distant mountain at left, framed by a red border with vertical Japanese inscription.

Artist
Katsushika Hokusai
Date
1804/16
Medium
Color woodblock print; horizontal koban
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 1293 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1820).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson

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