Horse "Japan"

The horse's body is decorated with textured grooves created with a chisel. The raised relief is covered with gold paint, creating a patina effect.
The texture of this horse is reminiscent of ancient stone. It seems as if streams of a mountain stream flow over it, turning golden in the rays of the sun.
The horse can be roughly classified as belonging to the traditional Japanese genre of "haiga," where the image illustrates a haiku stanza. Viewers are meant to experience the beauty of the unspoken in the combination of words and artistic imagery.
Let's assume that the horse is based on a haiku by Tachibana Akemi, a 19th-century poet:
The song of the woodcutter.
The discordant twittering of birds.
The murmur of a brook.
The grass washed with dew.
Pines reaching to the sky...