le jardin sous la pluie (V)

"The garden under the rain (V)" sits at the intersection of two of Kasai's principal subjects: the early garden compositions that anchored his output through the 1980s and the rain motif that has dominated his later work. The title carries a clear echo of Debussy's "Jardins sous la pluie" of 1903, consistent with the broader Francophile orientation of Kasai's titling. The fifth state in the series allows a return to garden material — foliage, paving, planted forms — now reframed by weather. Vertical streaks of rain typically intersect with the more organic vocabulary of the garden, with bokashi gradients carrying the wet atmospheric mass through the composition. The integration of rain over garden imagery represents a transitional register in Kasai's practice, mediating between the architectural clarity of his middle period and the more atmospheric water studies that followed.