Look ten times and see one

The title invokes a proverb about careful observation, and Karhu's print likely renders the saying through a single, deliberately spare image — possibly a figure, a creature, or a contemplative still-life arrangement that rewards extended looking. He produced several aphoristic prints of this kind, in which a maxim is given visual form using minimal pictorial means. The composition probably relies on broad, unmodulated color fields, generous areas of unprinted washi, and the heavy black outline that defines his mature style, letting the proverb's meaning emerge from restraint rather than illustration. Karhu carved his own blocks and pulled his own impressions in the sosaku-hanga tradition of artist-directed printmaking, and the surface of such prints often carries the visible texture of baren burnishing through the lighter color passages. These adage-titled works extend Karhu's practice beyond strict Kyoto topography into a more reflective vein, drawing on the long Japanese tradition of pictures paired with poetic or proverbial inscription.