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](/glossary/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](/glossary/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.