Hail Falls Noisily on Bamboo Leaves

An exhibition of Japanese prints from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection.

There are some exquisite examples in this exhibition from the Art Gallery's own collection as well as from the F.C.W. Staub loan collection, including prints by such masters as Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Heavy snow, monsoon winds and rain, and other elemental factors contribute to diverse seasonal changes in weather and climate in Japan. Landscape, including the depiction of season and weather patterns, became a popular theme of colour woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) in the latter stages (18th and 19th Centuries) of the Edo period in Japan.

The exhibition title 'Hail Falls Noisily on Bamboo Leaves' is an extract from the Diary of Izumi Shikibu (10th - 11th Century) translated by Willis Barnstone.

31 May 08 to 12 April 09

Image: Ando Hiroshige 1797-1858 Tsuchiyama Haru No Ame (Spring rain) woodblock print on paper Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Purchased 1985 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society