TY - BOOK AU - Cabanas, Pilar. AU - ED - ED - ED - ED - SN - 2 PY - 0000///46 CY - Ateneo de Manila University PB - June 2008. KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - Biography KW - Travel writers KW - Japan KW - Description and travel N1 - ABSTRACT : This essay discusses an early visit of the artist Fernando Zobel to Japan, which is not included in his biographies. The evidence of this stay in the japanese archipelago is kept in a notebook found in the Museo de Arte Abstracto Espanol de Cuenca in Spain. The notebook is a collection of drawings and notes made by Zobel between 1 June 1953 and 18 June 1954. This essay seeks to locate the notebook in its context and identity the subjects represented in the drawings. It analyzes the interest hidden behind these subjects and the intention of the artist, and shows that the style and subject matter are in keeping with the creative moment he was in searching his for identity; 5 ER -