Volume 144

This designation most likely refers to a specific numbered installment within the Gekkō Zuihitsu (月耕随筆), Ogata Gekko's long-running series of woodblock print illustrations published in bound monthly fascicles from the 1890s onward. Each fascicle contained multiple designs covering subjects ranging from bijin-ga and historical narrative to landscape, folklore, and genre scenes. Volume 144 would represent a late installment in this extensive sequence. Without further image documentation, the print likely presents one of Gekko's characteristic figure compositions: an elegantly dressed woman in an interior or garden setting, or a historical scene rendered in his hybrid Kanō-Western style. The serial format allowed Gekko to maintain a sustained output of refined single-sheet designs distributed to a subscription audience and later collected by dealers and connoisseurs as reference material for figure design, textile pattern, and narrative illustration.