Very good condition.
Signed, titled, and dated at upper left on verso.

Born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Mitsumasa Kadota has long explored the fundamental relationships inherent in painting—between ground and figure, color and brushstroke—while probing the boundaries and potential of the medium itself.
INAHAMI, an early representative work, embodies this pursuit. The rhythmic, undulating strokes and vivid colors unfold across the surface like waves, conveying the artist’s inner conflicts and emotional fluctuations with striking immediacy.

Reflecting on this period, Kadota spoke about the work in connection to his exhibition Diagram Seen from Above (YUKO KOBAYASHI Art Space, Tokyo, 2009):

“This exhibition was based on my mother’s family home by the sea, where I grew up. As a child, my playground was the beach and the fishing port, where windbreak forests stretched endlessly, shielding crops from the sea breeze. To me, they seemed to separate the sea from everyday life.
At that house, there once stood a camphor tree that had fallen, its roots exposed. I vaguely remember many crabs making their burrows in its hollows. Somehow, the landscape of my childhood and the inexplicable sensations I hold today seem deeply connected.”

Bridging personal memory and painterly exploration, the work delicately intertwines themes of nature, time, and recollection, marking an important point of departure in Kadota’s ongoing artistic development.

M-gallery, Tochigi, Japan

"MITSUMASA KADOTA works 2005-2016", M-gallery, 2016, p. 16, no. 14

“The Tree Diagram That Overlooks”, May 7 - 24, 2009, youkobo ART SPACE, Tokyo