Evening Bells BUT at Kanazawa

#evningbells #japaneseprints #ukiyo-e #kanazawa  

Evening Bells is a popular theme in Japanese art especially landscape prints due to the well known EIGHT VIEWS THEME. It was so popular that ukiyo-e print artists did series of views from other areas that were not Edo or Lake Biwa.

The temple and bells are implied rather than depicted with the artist invoking an evening view of boats and a village near or perhaps the outskirts of Kanazawa and temples suggested by roofs just showing as mists form on the hillsides above.

Notice how few colors and tones there are blue and a gradient thereof, a black gray gradient,  two greens, and some browns. 

Rain at Kanazawa by Hiroshige

 #hiroshige #kanazawa #japaneseprint 

Continuing our Rain Theme here's a print by Hiroshige 

Kanazawa Rain 

Note how the rain obscured mountains or trees in the distance are balanced by the hut roofs and I think stacks of hay from rice or smaller huts in the middle right and foreground.

Note also the use of diagonals.

A "masterclass" in how to use greys and pale tints without an image becoming dreary