Christ of the Miracle of Loaves and Fish, Shôwa period, dated 1967

The miracle of the loaves and fish — in which Christ feeds five thousand people with five loaves and two fish — is among the Gospels' most vivid demonstrations of abundance arising from apparent scarcity, and its date of 1967 places it in the productive middle period of Watanabe's career. His katazome rendering would deploy the warm earth tones of the mingei tradition to show the breaking and distribution of bread, the crowd's hunger transformed into the satisfaction of sharing. The miracle's communal dimension — the gathering and the shared meal — is central to his interpretation.