An unrealistic landscape, yet foreboding of countless lives and deaths, "Landscape of Reminiscence #1" is a painting inspired by the memories of survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the United States in 1945.

The artist attempted to relive the war, something he had never experienced, by reading books of A-bomb experiences and A-bomb novels and by copying nearly 4,000 paintings of "memories of the atomic bomb" drawn by A-bomb survivors that are kept at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. By carefully tracing the motifs, lines, and colors of the paintings, and imagining the original experiences that were copied as mental images, he attempted to pass on even the smallest memory of the horrific past as his own. This work is one of two "scenes of reliving" that are the fruit of his efforts.

　         In this work, there is a sincere attitude to take on the problem of the atomic bombing, which stood as a trauma at the beginning of the huge postwar Japan (art), not through objective historical facts or data, but through the subjective memories of everyone who had lived through the war between the nation and the state while trying hard to survive. In the sense that these works are not mere fantasies, but are the result of sincere coverage of real events, they inherit the methodology of "reportage paintings" created in the 1950s by Japanese artists who faced the contradictions of Japanese reality and were prepared to assume the political nature of art in their own right.