Katsunobu Kawahito gives nine necessary conditions for a great work: a background, a midground, a foreground, light, shade, air, an impression, the feeling of a lively motion and heart.

In this work, there is the magnificent mountain in the background, the pagoda in the midground and the plants in the foreground. He expresses light, shade and air skillfully with “sumi” (ink), stimulating our senses. It is as if the plants, depicted with quick brush strokes, are swaying in the wind. Katsunobu Kawahito’s intuition penetrates into the life of the objects themselves that come under his observation. Whatever he may paint of nature will inevitably express of this intuition; “the spirits of the objects” will be felt softly breathing in his works.