ars gratia artis
persimmons
pencil and watercolor on paper
4 inches x 6 inches
Persimmons in fruit—
Hear the distant temple bells
Day grows into night
I drew this piece about four years ago, when I was visiting the Jesuit high school at Kobe. It was summer and right outside my window was this persimmon tree, called kaki in Japanese, pendant with fruit. I wrote a haiku on the persimmon.