(Rooster)

A rooster — the bird central to both Peter's denial narrative and the general symbolism of dawn and the watch of the night — appears here as an independent figure study, likely one of Watanabe's explorations of his most frequently deployed animal symbol. The rooster in Japanese and Christian tradition alike carries associations of wakefulness, the marking of time, and the announcement that darkness has ended. Watanabe's katazome rendering gives the bird the bold, simplified form suited to the stencil technique's vocabulary.