Kutsukake: Rain on the Hiratsuka Plain
c. 1835–36 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · National Diet Library, Tokyo
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About this work
- Artist
- Keisai Eisen (1790–1848)
- Year
- c. 1835–36
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- approx. 23 × 35 cm (horizontal ōban)
- Collection
- National Diet Library, Tokyo (impression pid 1306293, call no. 寄別2-2-1-5; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō
Rain drives across the picture in long pale streaks, and a string of packhorses with blue checked loads under yellow rain covers bends into the wind. A man in a blue coat and round hat leans forward hauling the lead rope, another in a straw cape walks at the rear, and the trees on the bank behind bow under the storm. This is print twenty of The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, published by Hōeidō and later Kinjudō, c. 1835–36. Keisai Eisen, who designed it, began the series and Utagawa Hiroshige completed it. Kutsukake was the nineteenth station on the Nakasendō, the inland road from Edo to Kyoto, and the title places the scene on the Hiratsuka plain; impressions vary in colour and condition.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Storm greys with yellow rain covers, blue checked loads and dark horses, for a study, hallway or home office at 16×24 in black. It pairs with Hiroshige's Shōno: Driving Rain for two storms on the road.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1835–36)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
