Diagonal rain slashes across the scene, dissolving the bridge into a blur of gray and blue. Figures clutch umbrellas, their hurried forms nearly erased by the downpour—yet each stroke of the baren remains deliberate.
How many umbrellas tilt against the storm, their shapes almost lost to the deluge?
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Woman After the Bath (Yokugo no onna), Taishô period, dated 1920 - par Hashiguchi Goyo
Mt. Fuji from Yamanaka - par Henmi Takashi
Autumn flower garden at Hana-yashiki in Mukojima - par Utagawa Hiroshige III