White Figure, Shôwa period, dated 1958

The 1958 White Figure, Shôwa period—a dated version of the white figure subject—shows Azechi working through the same chromatic problem in a specific year, the 1958 date placing it in the peak of his mature period. The dated version would have offered a specific colorway or compositional approach that distinguished it from any undated white figure print, the visual character of the particular year's work reflecting wherever his formal investigations had taken him by that point in his career.