Christ Washing the Feet of Saint Peter

Christ washing the feet of Peter — the moment at the Last Supper when Jesus performs a servant's task for his disciples, inverting the expected hierarchy between teacher and student — is one of the Gospel's most theologically charged acts of humility. Watanabe's katazome rendering of this scene places the two figures in a direct, intimate relationship: the kneeling Christ, the astonished Peter, the basin and water between them all rendered in the bold, earthy forms of the mingei tradition. The servant posture of divinity is the print's central visual and theological statement.