Nude

This half-length figure shows a woman with short black hair and straight-cut bangs, tilting her head slightly as she looks out in front of a red background. Planes of blue and green are placed at the sides, and her skin is captured in forceful brushstrokes. It is an oil painting, 45.5 cm high by 37.9 cm wide.

According to the Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Fujishima said that simplification, the expression of the complex in a simple way, has long been valued in Western painting, and that a necessary and sufficient simplification is what brings synthesis and unity to everything.

In this work the background is handled only with planes of red, blue, and green, and no descriptive objects are painted. Although a small late work, the museum's commentary says it embodies the essence of Fujishima's art. Fujishima was from Kagoshima City, and the museum holds many of his works.