There are at least eleven versions of this composition dated to the period 1950-1953. (Nihon no Kyosho: Yokoyama Taikan, "Overview of Works" section, pp. 28-29, 37.) Such repetition is not uncommon for Taikan, who developed themes and portions of compositions sometimes over the course of decades. The distinctive spit of land hanging out over the water is a motif that relates back to one of his earliest exhibition paintings, the "Summer" scroll from his 1897 "Four seasons in rain". In terms of the development of this composition, the paintings vary the most in terms of the effects of wet ink rather than in composition. The depth of ink, the extreme ranges of dark and light, and the shaping resulting from the pooled ink along the edges of motifs were clearly the focus of Taikan's interest.