Unknown - man eating

Unknown Man Eating—a figure in the domestic act of consuming food, presumably in a mountain setting—is one of Azechi's most intimate and unglamorous subjects. Eating in the mountain world was a specific experience: the appetite sharpened by exertion and altitude, the food often simple but intensely satisfying, the act of nourishment a fundamental human requirement made more vivid by the extreme environment surrounding it. His bold simplified rendering gave this ordinary act the same formal dignity as the summit arrival.