Since moving to Agatsuma in Gunma Prefecture, I have become more familiar with the mountains and have come to feel a kind
of human touch from them. First, I started to make the long painting “Mountain Landscape” with a view of the mountains of Nakanojo from Higashi-Agatsuma Town. Next, I moved on to Mount Haruna and Lake Haruna at the Lake Haruna Artist Residency in Takasaki City, and after that, Mount Asama from my stay at Sweetgrass in Kita-Karuizawa. Finally, I worked with
Mount Myogi from the artist residence at the inn “sazare” at the foot of the mountain. The painting, which started about 3 meters long, has grown each time I encountered the mountains.
Now, after completing the work in Nakanojo, it is a picture scroll about 14 meters long.