The Great Fire at Ryogoku Viewed from Hamacho — 浜町〓（より）写両国大火 明治四年一月廿六日出火

This print depicts a major fire in the Ryōgoku district of Tokyo, recorded in the Japanese inscription as breaking out on the twenty-sixth day of the first month of Meiji 4 (January 26, 1871), as viewed from the Hamachō district across the Sumida River. Fire subjects—kaji-e—were a longstanding tradition in Edo popular prints, but Kiyochika transforms the genre through his mastery of nocturnal light effects. The conflagration's glow would illuminate billowing smoke columns against a dark sky, while reflections on the river surface below multiply the light sources. The Ryōgoku bridge and the silhouetted rooflines of the far bank likely anchor the composition spatially, giving the viewer a voyeuristic yet distant vantage. This kind of atmospheric nocturne, using graduated bokashi and layered woodblock impressions to model firelight, represents Kiyochika at the height of his kōsen-ga technique.