This rhododendron branch was given by the grandparents of one grad. school student of our research group when we visited mountainous regions of Asuke, Aichi prefecture for our seminar’s fieldwork. I painted this work for an old lady who had cared my family (especially, my mother — well, she asked me to paint a small work as a gift to her) very much. I made the background color dark in order to express distinct figure of the rhododendron and this successfully matches the language of this flower, ‘dignity’. But unfortunately, the dark-burgundy background color looks like black in the computer monitor.