[Machine Translation] A New Horizon Forged from the Depths of Despair Ten Months That Marked a Turning Point in His Life. 1949 was a special year for the painter Tsuguharu Fujita. The man who had once been hailed as the darling of his era now found himself facing an unexpected crisis. Overwhelmed by a flood of emotions anger, sadness, and more and feeling stifled by life in his homeland, Fujita chose to flee Japan. The free-spirited atmosphere of New York, where he arrived as a stopover on his way to his final destination, Paris, led Fujita to remark, I feel like I can do anything." Through his large-scale works which would later become his masterpieces as well as illustrated letters that candidly revealed his innermost feelings, this exhibition traces the path of one painter s rebirth and challenges.