Untitled

This untitled woodblock print, catalogued under abstract subjects, reflects the experimental margins of Kiyochika's graphic practice during the Meiji period. His series documenting the transformation of Tokyo—bridges, parks, rivers, factory districts—sometimes yielded images in which the industrial or urban referent recedes behind the visual logic of light and smoke. This print may depict a diffuse industrial atmosphere: the soft, spreading glow of a furnace or steam vent rendered through layered bokashi passages on washi, with minimal linear detail defining form. The result reads as abstract without departing from the observable phenomena Kiyochika consistently sought to capture in print.