Kaki

"Kaki" — the Japanese persimmon — appears here as a direct naming of the subject treated in Maki Haku's more familiar abstract-adjacent mode. The fruit's rounded form, dense color, and its association with autumn and the traditional Japanese interior gave him a subject simultaneously concrete and, in his treatment, approaching the purely formal. His kaki prints tend to isolate the fruit — or a small cluster — against spare grounds, giving the shape maximum visual weight.