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This print may reflect Kiyochika's later career output, which included satirical cartoons for illustrated newspapers as well as continued landscape work. His later landscapes often return to nocturnal subjects but with a more spare compositional arrangement than the dense atmospheric scenes of the 1870s. The [washi](/glossary/washi) support in prints from this period was sometimes lighter weight, and the palette reduced to fewer color blocks, giving the image a quieter, more contemplative character. Kiyochika's understanding of Western tonal painting remained visible in his controlled use of gradated blue-grey skies and his preference for silhouetted foreground elements against lit backgrounds — a compositional formula he refined over decades.