Although many summer works are painted with cool colors that give us the feeling of coldness, the characteristic of this work is the yellow background color, which is transferred with a paper marbling technique. The slight yellow color doesn’t give us the impression of the strong and uncomfortable sunlight of summer, but the impression of the sunlight which cultivates all lives. The convolvuluses, which grow vigorously thanks to the sun, are depicted with Katsunobu Kawahito’s brushwork full of a sense of speed. The depiction of the grasshopper makes us imagine its next motion. This is an impressive work filled with a lot of lively motion.

sumi-nagashi (paper marbling)
A technique to disperse floating sumi by dropping resin on the water’s surface and print it on paper. A similar effect may be obtained with water colors.