Three of the Moon, Tree of Wind and Small Boat

The title catalogues the plate's three constituents: a moon (or a triad of moon-related elements), a tree shaped by or naming the wind, and a small boat. Such enumerative titles are characteristic of Asahi, who often itemizes the discrete motifs an image contains rather than naming a unified subject. The composition likely separates the three elements across the picture plane, allowing each to occupy its own register — moon above, tree to one side, boat on a lower band of water. Aquatint handles the tonal divisions between sky, foliage, and water surface; etched line picks out the bare branches, the rigging or hull of the boat, and the rim of the lunar disc. Dated 2006 alongside the music-spirit plates of the same year, this image belongs to the more landscape-driven strand of her work, where her invented beings are absent or only implied. The pairing of moon, tree, and boat is a configuration she returns to repeatedly: a private cosmology in which natural elements stand in for the spirits and travelers who populate her other plates.