View of 99 islands at Sasebo from Yumiharitake

The Kujukushima (Ninety-Nine Islands) of Sasebo Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture form a scattered archipelago of densely forested islets, traditionally viewed from the Yumiharidake observation peak. Tokuriki's treatment of this celebrated panorama would deploy the elevated meisho-e viewpoint developed by Hokusai and Hiroshige — a high horizon allowing the islands to recede in receding bands of green into a silver-grey sea. The print would typically use bokashi gradation across both sea and sky to suggest atmospheric depth, with the islands themselves printed in flat color blocks of varying tone to differentiate near and far. As a Kyoto artist who traveled extensively to document Japanese landscapes, Tokuriki produced numerous Kyushu views; the geographic scope of his output across all four main islands distinguished him from contemporaries who concentrated on a single region. The composition reflects his lifelong interest in updating Edo-period topographic conventions with twentieth-century color sensibilities.