When Koga visited New York, he saw a ``beckoning cat'' at a store that had no connection to Japan. The opportunity to create this series was inspired by the experience of being surprised by its outstanding presence in a different culture.
Koga's style is based on the classic forms of Japanese art. For example, his representative work ``Cheek Armor Sake'' uses the ``changeable helmets'' of Sengoku period warlords as a motif, but he reworks them into modern forms and adds Koga's perspective on modern society as a ``concept.'' The same is true for this work. Although the beckoning cat is based on a typical form, it wears a ``cheek armor cup,'' a sake cup that inspires young people with ambitions. In this way, this work inherits the role that the ``beckoning cat'' has played, while adding new elements and updating it into a new ``beckoning cat'' for modern times.