Signal K, Shôwa period, dated 1962

Signal K from 1962 belongs to what appears to have been a brief venture into more explicitly abstract composition—the title suggesting a visual signal or communication rendered in purely geometric form, without representational subject. The K designation may indicate a color variant or a work from a series of signal compositions. This print demonstrates that Saito's reductive approach to representational subjects was always in dialogue with the possibility of pure abstraction, and he occasionally crossed that line.