Jonah

Jonah — the reluctant prophet swallowed by a great fish and returned to fulfill his mission to Nineveh — gives Watanabe one of Scripture's most narratively compressed stories: God's call, human flight, divine pursuit, and the great fish that is simultaneously punishment and preservation. His katazome rendering of this subject would likely focus on a single key moment in the story, the great fish rendered in the same bold simplified forms as the fleeing prophet, the sea's powers deployed in service of divine insistence.