Lower embankment at Mimeguri, Mukojima

This second recorded view of the Mimeguri embankment at Mukojima represents Kiyochika's practice of returning to a single location under varied conditions, a working method analogous to that of contemporaneous Western Impressionist painters though arrived at independently. The two prints likely differ in season or time of day, allowing comparison of the same compositional framework under contrasting light. The embankment's characteristic elements—riverside trees, the low horizon of the Sumida, figures making use of the path—would appear in both, but the coloristic and atmospheric treatment would shift. Such serial engagement with a location demonstrates Kiyochika's primary interest in the behavior of light and atmosphere rather than in topographic documentation, distinguishing his approach from the descriptive tradition of earlier meisho-e landscapes.