Daimaru department store at Odemmacho, from

This print depicts the Daimaru dry goods store at Odemmacho, one of the established commercial districts of Meiji-era Tokyo. Kiyochika renders the scene with his characteristic attention to artificial and natural light, likely capturing the building's facade illuminated by lanterns or early gas lamps against a darkened street. The composition reflects the tension between Edo-period mercantile tradition and the encroaching Western commercial architecture of the 1870s–1880s. Pedestrians in a mix of kimono and Western dress populate the foreground, grounding the scene in Tokyo's transitional social landscape. Kiyochika's bokashi gradations create tonal depth across the sky, a technique central to his kosen-ga approach.