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- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Waseda University
- Image courtesy of
- Waseda University
Description
No title is recorded for this Kiyochika woodblock print. Within his catalogued output, prints in this numerical range often correspond to either his late [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) views or to figure-based compositions from the 1880s, a period when his focus shifted somewhat from pure landscape atmospherics toward subjects more directly engaged with Meiji-era social change. His technical approach remained consistent: [oban](/glossary/oban)-format compositions built around the interplay of light and dark, with [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations establishing mood before more detailed key-block imagery articulated figures and architectural elements. The [washi](/glossary/washi) ground, selected for its absorbency and tooth, was essential to the soft edges that distinguish his atmospheric passages from the sharper graphic language of contemporaries like Hiroshige III.