Complete set of the series

A print presenting a complete set of one of Chikanobu's major series — the visual documentation that the full series had been assembled. Chikanobu was a prodigious producer of serialized work, and complete sets of his major series were prized by collectors who could assemble the full narrative arc of court beauties, historical scenes, or military events across the dozens of individual prints that made up each series. The complete-set designation signals both the collector's achievement and the series's internal coherence.