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This print may depict a scene at one of the Meiji-era parks or public spaces that replaced older Edo sites, such as Ueno, Asakusa, or Shimbashi, where Western-style entertainment and traditional festivals coexisted. Kiyochika's compositional framing in such works draws on his study of Western perspective, with receding architectural elements or rows of lanterns establishing depth. The washi support, moistened before printing, accepted the bokashi gradations smoothly, allowing sky and distant water to shift tonally across the sheet in a manner the viewer experienced as ambient atmosphere rather than applied pigment. Such technical refinements mark Kiyochika's prints as distinct achievements within the late Meiji woodblock tradition.