A crumpled hat and a patched-up jacket hang on a rickety chair. Are these abandoned items a reference to Kanemitsu’s itinerant youth? Like many of his drawings, the subject of this work is hard to determine. “Yoshi” may refer to Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953), Kanemitsu’s teacher at the Art Students League in New York City and an ardent proponent of Social Realist art. Out of respect for his sensei (teacher), Kanemitsu did not pursue abstraction seriously until after Kuniyoshi’s death. This image, with its discarded clothing, may also refer to the artist’s departure from recognizable images of the human form.