Untitled, Pilgrim

A pilgrim figure — dressed in the white clothing, sedge hat, and wooden staff of the traditional Japanese pilgrimage — walks through or rests in a landscape. The pilgrim (henro or ohenro-san) was a familiar presence in Japanese landscape, their white-clad figures moving through the countryside on routes to sacred sites. Hodo's depiction of this solitary figure within a landscape gives the subject both religious dimension and the visual interest of the human form within a natural setting.