# Rain Clearing over a Summer’s Mountain

- By: Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
- Date: 1893–1914
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Painting: 122.1 x 32.8 cm (48 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.); Mounted: 183.5 x 44.8 cm (72 1/4 x 17 5/8 in.)
- Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Credit line: Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.151)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.151/2022.151_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Before entering into his apprenticeship with Yohei II, Yohei III trained as a painter in Osaka. He continued to paint throughout his career as a ceramist. Yohei IV authenticated this painting as having been done by his father in a box lid inscription dated to the summer of 1919. The signed inscription by Yohei III in the painting’s upper right gives the title Rain Clearing Over a Summer’s Mountain and is accompanied by his Imperial Household Artist seal. His signature seal is found in the lower left on the grassy riverbank. The composition follows a basic literati painting convention: it is divided into a foreground, middle ground, and background, with trees in the front, a temple in the middle, and mountains at the back. The brushwork, too, with its ovals of inkwash and dry-brushed dots and lines, has the casual feel of a painting made for one’s own amusement or dashed off for a friend.

As part of his ceramic practice, Yohei III also made roller ends to be placed at either end of the wooden dowel around which the lower part of a hanging scroll mounting is wrapped. These served both as weights for the painting and as knobs for handling it when rolling and unrolling. The…