Evening twilight at Haneda Airport

Evening twilight at Haneda Airport translates the Tokyo airfield into Kusaka's characteristic semi-abstract idiom rather than rendering it as a literal [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) cityscape. The composition likely organizes the dusk hour through broad chromatic fields and tonal contrast — saturated indigos or violets against warmer residual light along the horizon — using [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradients to suggest the transition between sky, runway, and reflected ground light. Kusaka's recurring egg and cloud motifs may appear here as luminous forms suspended over the lower planes, doubling as atmospheric phenomena and as the modernist shapes that define his graphic vocabulary. Printed by mokuhanga on absorbent [washi](/glossary/washi), the work depends on the depth and evenness of pigment achievable with the [baren](/glossary/baren) rather than mechanical reproduction. The subject sits within the broader postwar [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) interest in contemporary Japanese landscapes, but Kusaka treats Haneda not as documentary scenery but as a vehicle for his ongoing investigation of color, edge, and tonal balance — the same concerns that earned him recognition at the Tokyo, Ljubljana, and Sao Paulo print biennials during the 1960s, and that link this image to his wider abstract output held in collections including MoMA and the British Museum.