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Clearing Weather at Awazu, Lake Biwa

近江八景「粟津晴嵐」

  • Clear Weather
Lake shore at Awazu under clearing sky, brisk wind lifting cloud edges — Clearing Weather at Awazu, Lake Biwa. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).
Utagawa Hiroshige. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).

Awazu’s "clearing weather" (seiran) is motion in the air itself. The clear-weather tag lets wind reshape clouds without rain or snow.

Clear-weather tag marks storm’s aftermath — read wind in tilted grasses and parted clouds.

Compare airy openness with mist at Mishima on the Tōkaidō.

Follow the long shoreline line that measures Lake Biwa’s breadth.

Extended Japanese viewing notes: 近江八景「粟津晴嵐」.

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