Kitaharasa is a painter. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Kitaharasa’s paintings feel like letters from the past, written in a code of color and cloth. They used distemper on cotton—an old-school glue binder that cracks like dried mud, giving every surface the texture of a well-read book. You could spend an hour tracing the hand-built lines in *Untitled* (likely 1379), guessing which brushstrokes dried first. Gallery Tiles keeps one of these fragile panels on the shelf so you can tilt it toward the light and watch the image flicker back into focus, as if the artist just stepped out for tea.