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](/glossary/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.