This is one of my old paintings. I remember visiting and painting this place but I can’t give the year exactly. I think it was around 2013. And I remember that my wife was visiting or taking our eldest daughter to Kitakyushu where she was studying at the university. However, my wife stopped on route to drop me off and let me do some painting while she went the rest of the way.
I think it was around 2013 that I discovered this beautiful national park in Fukuoka prefecture. We were visiting my oldest daughter who was studying at Kitakyushu university. On the way home, we took a different route from normal and went through this national park. I was delighted because this is a very strange place with small mountains that are littered with numerous rocks.
Some of my old paintings are a mystery to me. Often I have no idea what year I painted them. Sometimes I can’t work out the place. And sometimes I know the place but I can’t remember the actual occasion when I was there and which led to the painting.
In 2012, an old Japanese man asked me if I wanted to go hiking. I eagerly said yes. First he took me to the top of Mt Ryozen. It was my first time climbing that mountain. I really enjoyed it.