「湯島元聖堂之景」

A dirt road curves along a hillside dense with green trees, a row of wooden telegraph poles strung with wires running beside it toward a distant view of the city below. Several small figures in kimono walk or stand along the road near a low building with a striped awning, and the sky is rendered in a pale blue-grey wash above muted rooftops in the distance. Woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika, titled 「湯島元聖堂之景」 (View of the Former Seidō at Yushima); year unknown.