Life Newly Born

On a summer day before the war, Kayô was greatly moved when he saw a newborn calf in a village near Tajima district of San'in region on the coast of the Japan Sea. The painter commented on this work created later from this moving experience, "The beauty of the newborn, the wonder of life," with the later comment, "An accidental encounter, we must treasure the impressions of the time when our hearts are moved by this subject." Some twenty years later, he created this work from those memories, which like good wine had matured.