SOSHUN (early spring)

"SOSHUN" (early spring) captures the fragile interval when winter's grip first loosens — the first hints of green in protected corners, the quality of light changed slightly, the cold still present but no longer absolute. Kitaoka renders this liminal seasonal moment through careful attention to the colors that signal spring's approach: the pale yellow-green of first growth, the still-gray tones of not-yet-warm earth, the sky beginning to blue rather than the flat white of winter. Early spring is a subject that demands subtlety, and Kitaoka brings his full formal precision to the task.