

At the end of chapter 19 of _Shindo_ , Kazuo Kikuna plays the piano for Kozue
Aihara, his piano studio classmate, after their date. Uta Naruse listens as
she passes Kazuo's house, and in two of the panels, she is drawn against a
background with a markedly different art style:

[![first
panel](https://i.stack.imgur.com/N9qQSm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/N9qQSm.jpg)

[![second
panel](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ca6ZJm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ca6ZJm.jpg)

The second panel clearly contains a reference to [Gustav Klimt's _The
Kiss_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_\(Klimt\)). With this in mind,
is the first panel also a reference to a work of art? I tried looking at some
other Klimt paintings to look for a similar image, but I couldn't find
anything overly convincing, perhaps partly because I don't have a strong
visual arts background.


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In the sequence where Kazuo plays for Aihara, are both panels with a shifted style references to works of art?