Bold black and white brush-ink painting with decisive solid black masses and crisp silhouettes, swinging line weight from hairline detail to broad filled strokes, in the spirit of sumi-e. Susanoo, the Shinto storm god, standing upright with a long sword raised in both hands on a rocky shore under a violent sky: a powerful bearded warrior in a belted robe with long wind-whipped hair, waves thundering over black rocks at his feet, a mass of storm cloud above with a single bolt of lightning, seen from a low angle in a tall frame.
Light: a single vermilion lightning bolt as the only colour in the sky, the figure, cloud and rocks in dense black ink with white paper left for the sword's gleam, the spray and the cloud's lit edge, wide open paper at the top; palette of black, grey and ivory paper with one vermilion; fierce, monumental, graphic; the blade and figure rise through the tall frame.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the figure rising through the height of the frame. A dignified, respectful depiction following traditional Japanese iconography, never comic or sexualized; no readable kanji, kana, seals, inscriptions, letters or logos anywhere.
