Sixty Years, Before and After - Room

Pendant to the artist's garden composition, this print turns inward to a domestic interior — likely a Japanese washitsu with tatami flooring, sliding shoji or fusuma, and the spare architectural geometry that has shaped Japanese interior space for centuries. The mokuhanga medium suits such subjects: large flat fields of pigment on washi register the matte luminosity of paper screens, while subtle bokashi gradations capture diffuse light entering from outside. The "before and after" framework, paired with "sixty years," frames the room as a site of memory — a space remembered across decades, in which the perception of the same architecture changes with the viewer who returns to it. Shiomi's tendency toward semi-abstraction means the room is unlikely to be specified by ornament or furnishing; the composition more probably distills the interior into its essential planes, intervals, and qualities of light, treating architectural space itself as the subject.