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This unidentified Kiyochika woodblock print is part of his Meiji-period production, the specific subject of which has not been recorded in currently available documentation. Kiyochika's prints of Tokyo cityscapes frequently show the city under conditions of low or artificial light — evening fog over Edo Bay, rain blurring gaslit streets, moonlight on temple rooftops — and these atmospheric effects are achieved through careful management of pigment transparency and [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) graduation on the blocks. His palette in such works tends toward limited, harmonious groupings — blue-black skies, warm amber light sources, cool gray middle grounds — that give even his commercially produced prints a degree of visual coherence unusual in the competitive [nishiki-e](/glossary/nishiki-e) market of the 1870s and 1880s.