（アラビアンナイト）

Titled （アラビアンナイト）, or 'Arabian Nights,' this print reflects the appetite in Meiji Japan for exotic and fantastical Western subjects following the accelerated cultural exchange of the era. Kiyochika, working in a period when translated editions of One Thousand and One Nights circulated in Japan, would have approached such a subject through the lens of theatrical or illustrative convention rather than direct observation. The composition likely features an interior or night scene consistent with the frame narrative's associations with lamplight, drapery, and decorative surface—elements compatible with Kiyochika's interest in artificial illumination effects. The print may have appeared in a serialized illustrated context, where his facility with both line and atmospheric tone served narrative ends across a range of non-Japanese subjects.