Mount Fuji at sunset on the lake in Suruga Province — Sunshu mizuumi nichibotsu no Fuji

The Japanese title Sunshu mizuumi nichibotsu no Fuji identifies the subject as Fuji seen from a lake in Suruga Province (present-day Shizuoka Prefecture), at the moment of sunset. Suruga Bay and the lakes of the Fuji Five Lakes region provided some of the most celebrated views of the mountain, with the peak reflected in still water creating a doubled image exploited across centuries of Japanese landscape art. Kiyochika's treatment applies his interest in the precise optical behavior of fading light: the sky at sunset shifts from orange or vermillion near the horizon to deeper blue overhead, and the water mirrors this gradation below a sharp horizon line. The mountain's snow-capped cone, rendered in the cooler white of reflected sky, anchors the composition against the warm-toned atmosphere. Unlike Hokusai's structurally dynamic Fuji views or Hiroshige's lyrical ones, Kiyochika's approach is atmospheric and meteorological, concerned with the specific color temperature of a particular hour. The composition aligns with his broader practice of recording transient light conditions in a format — the woodblock print — that required him to decompose continuous tonal gradation into discrete printed layers.