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This unidentified Kawanabe Kyosai woodblock print belongs to the artist's broad output across multiple genres and series produced during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Kyosai worked across an unusually wide range of subjects — mythological and supernatural scenes, satirical cartoons, classical Chinese and Japanese literary themes, [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) bird-and-flower compositions, and genre scenes — all executed with the confident brushwork of an artist trained simultaneously in Kanô academic painting and the popular [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) tradition. Without a confirmed title, the precise subject of this print remains unidentified; it is catalogued here by its institutional accession sequence. The print is rendered in the [nishiki-e](/glossary/nishiki-e) polychrome technique characteristic of Edo- and Meiji-period commercial woodblock production.