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This unidentified print is classified in the abstract category within Kiyochika's catalog. Abstract designations applied to works in Japanese print collections sometimes indicate fragments of larger compositions—panels from folding screens, sections of album leaves, or portions of illustrated books—that have been separated from their original physical support and catalogued as independent prints. Kiyochika's practice included contributions to composite formats: album compilations, illustrated anthologies, and memorial volumes in which individual sheets were bound together. Works extracted from such albums may circulate in institutional collections without the contextual information—surrounding pages, binding evidence, colophon data—that would clarify their subject matter or their relationship to surrounding imagery in the original publication.