Design
Barely a dozen designs are known by Toyohide, and impressions are very difficult to find, even more so in good condition, as here. The animated composition relies in part on the strong diagonal established by the cresting waves, à la Hokusai, in opposition to the slanting metallic rain; formerly in the Okada Collection, a celebrated Japanese compilation (featured in Kuroda Genji's 1929 Kamigata-e ichiran, Review of Kamigata Pictures) that was thought to have been lost until its miraculous reappearance and subsequent dispersal just a few years ago.
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