#1 Distant View of Shinjuku Mitsukoshi from Hoteiya 12/20

This small-edition print (12 of 20) records the Mitsukoshi department store's Shinjuku branch as seen from the Hoteiya building, capturing one of Tokyo's most visible symbols of Taishō-era consumer modernity. Oda frames the monumental commercial facade at a measured distance, allowing surrounding streetscape elements—rooflines, utility lines, pedestrian figures—to establish scale and urban density. The limited edition of 20 suggests this was produced as a collector's piece rather than for general distribution, with correspondingly careful printing. Oda's characteristic attention to architectural geometry and atmospheric recession organizes the composition, situating the department store within the broader fabric of a modernizing Shinjuku rather than isolating it as a monument.