'When I was a student, I traveled alone in the Tohoku region of Japan, and while sketching Mount Iwaki, I suddenly noticed a grass with interestingly shaped seeds in front...
"When I was a student, I traveled alone in the Tohoku region of Japan, and while sketching Mount Iwaki, I suddenly noticed a grass with interestingly shaped seeds in front of me. The seeds of the grass, which I drew and copied in my sketchbook, became the basis of the Shu-Mon 種文 pattern. I still do not know the name of the grass.
In one of Kenkichi Tomimoto's writings, he wrote about the pattern of broken pine needles. He praises the simple pattern of folded pine needles as a pattern to be painted on a small plate or vessel.