The nobleman Wake no Kiyomaro visiting the Usa Hachiman Shrine

A second impression or variant design treating the same subject as catalog entry [4] — Wake no Kiyomaro's pivotal visit to the Usa Hachiman Shrine in 769 to receive the oracle that turned aside the priest Dōkyō's bid for the throne. Multiple states of a single Gekko design are common, since popular sheets were often re-pulled across editions with minor alterations to color blocks or the addition of secondary publishers' seals; alternatively, Gekko occasionally returned to the same historical subject in independent compositions for different series. Either possibility places this sheet within the Meiji-era print market for didactic historical scenes, where loyalist narratives drawn from the Nara and Heian periods reinforced contemporary imperial ideology. Technically the print would conform to standard nishiki-e production: a key block carrying the figure's drapery and shrine architecture, color blocks layered over it, and bokashi gradations applied at the printing stage. The pairing of the two impressions is itself useful to scholars tracking Gekko's edition practices.