We return this week to our Sadao Watanabe print festival. To follow the last series of images of the Passion, I've just added two pictures of Christ's post-Resurrection appearances to the image gallery of the profile page of this Japanese Graphic Artist. The first in the pair of small format washi (Japanese paper) prints shows Watanabe's version of a popular theme in Western sacred art, known as Noli me Tangere, taken from the Latin translation of the Risen Christ's words to Mary Magdelene outside his garden tomb: "Touch me not!" (John 20:11-18). Watanabe follows traditional Christian iconography in depicting the Resurrected Christ, who has not yet "ascended to his Father," turning away from the kneeling Mary, as she reaches out to embrace him. A curious feature of the print is the free floating bird, which ought to be attached by a bridging line to other sections of the stencil pattern, a visual "trick" Watanabe achieves by covering the paper strip over with the paste in the printing process. The second image in the series shows Christ appearing to two disciples on the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). The gospel account tells us the two travelers did not recognize the Resurrected Jesus, so Christ is shown without an identifying halo, the first (and tallest) figure in the grouping. Geographical features do not usually appear in Watanabe's art, but since the story takes place on the road to Emmaus, we can just make out a descending, zig-zag trail in the background, leading to a tiny house at the bottom right of the print. (John Kohan)