Rain slants in ruler-straight white lines across ink-dark paper. Two travelers, bent beneath shared umbrellas, move along the path beside Azuma Shrine’s torii gate.

The synthetic Prussian blue deepens the night, grounding Hiroshige’s translation of Chinese poetic rain into an Edo suburb. How many steps do the figures take before the downpour blurs their silhouettes?

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https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.145