Nikoraido (Nicholas' house), the Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection, built on Surugada Hill

Nikorai-dō, the Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection, was completed in 1891 on Surugadai Hill in Kanda to a Byzantine-revival design by Mikhail Shchurupov, becoming a landmark of Russian Orthodox presence in Meiji Tokyo. Oda's print frames the cathedral's central drum and dome rising above surrounding tiled rooftops, a juxtaposition that registered the city's hybrid skyline before the 1923 Kantō earthquake damaged the structure and required reconstruction. The composition uses elevated vantage and atmospheric perspective—techniques Oda absorbed from his yōga training—while the mokuhanga method renders masonry textures through controlled bokashi and disciplined keyblock carving. Nikorai-dō appears repeatedly in his oeuvre across both lithography and woodblock, suggesting a sustained engagement with Tokyo's imported ecclesiastical architecture as subject matter befitting the modern print. Within the sōsaku-hanga program, such sites assert that contemporary Tokyo, including its non-Japanese religious monuments, deserves the depictive seriousness that Edo masters had directed toward shrines and temples.