No. 168 - Torii and Persimmons

This still-life silkscreen combines two distinctly Japanese visual elements: a torii gate fragment and clusters of persimmons (kaki). The pairing situates seasonal harvest imagery against an architectural symbol of sacred threshold, a juxtaposition that grounds the domestic in the ceremonial. Katsuda's serigraph likely uses the vivid orange of ripe persimmons as the dominant chromatic note, contrasting with the vermillion or weathered wood of the torii. The flat color layers of silkscreen printing suit persimmon rendering well, as the fruit's smooth, spherical form reads effectively as a single unmodulated color plane with minimal shading. The composition may include branches with residual leaves or bare winter twigs.