I painted this work to try a public exhibition. This exhibition is the one for the citizens of Nagoya, especially of Chikusa Ward. I saw a news of this exhibition in the Nagoya’s official bulletin, then I decided to try in spite that I didn’t know anything about this. The result was good— won a prize as ‘a fine work’. I heard that the best three works were to be exhibited at the Nagoya Citizens’ Artexhibition, which was going to be held next month. Yeah, this is enough to make me try to the next year exhibition.

The landscape painted in this work is located by a pond called “Nekogahora-ike”, Chikusa Ward, Nagoya. Many people enjoy morning fishing on holidays. The beautiful sight in a morning glow, which I often saw while walking, inspired me to paint this work. The first plan of the composition was a bird’s eye view in a vertically long picture but I changed to this composition because I needed stability and morning light direction. Longitudinally long picture matches well with this motif, I think. I painted fishing people by imagination so I’m afraid that people’s size and/or perspectives are strange. How do you think?