（スケッチ）

Titled （スケッチ）, or 'Sketch,' this print likely adopts a deliberately informal or observational register, possibly presenting a scene as a rapid pictorial notation rather than a fully resolved composition. Kiyochika was in sustained contact with Western graphic practices—particularly the illustrated press—and the notion of the sketch as a legitimate artistic mode, distinct from finished exhibition work, entered Japanese visual culture through these channels during the Meiji period. The composition may feature a single figure, a fragment of urban landscape, or a domestic interior rendered with abbreviated means. The title's Western loanword (sukecchi) signals an awareness of European drawing conventions and their Japanese reception, positioning this print in relation to the hybrid visual culture of the era.