Eggplant

”Ripen! Eggplants, Grow and grow, eggplants, Ripen! Eggplants,
Should you not ripen, become a pasted fabric picture on the shelf”
Such words of simple and rhythmical tone can be said to lively express the aspect of richly ripen eggplants representing the summer vegetables are in this poem. Such a state filled with vitality is faithfully embodied on the surface of Kenzan’s characteristic unpretentious brush execution in oneness of calligraphy and painting in his late years.