（朝顔）

This kacho-e depicts morning glories (asagao), a subject long associated with the cool hours of the summer dawn in Japanese print culture. Kiyochika renders the blooms with attention to the way soft early-morning light filters through the petals, a characteristic concern of his kosen-ga approach applied here to a botanical subject rather than a townscape. The twining vines and funnel-shaped blossoms lend themselves to delicate gradations of blue and purple achieved through careful bokashi shading. Morning glories carried strong seasonal associations in Edo-period culture and remained popular subjects in Meiji-era woodblock prints as artists balanced Western naturalism with inherited decorative conventions.