Ban Dan'emon rowing beside a steamship.

A close-up, half-length portrait of a bare-armed man with a furrowed brow and windswept hair, a white cloth tied around his forehead, gripping a long oar or pole braced across his body while holding a red banner inscribed with large characters. A sword hilt is visible at his shoulder and a black-hulled, rigged steamship looms behind him against a dark sky, with a printed text panel and title cartouche in the upper right. The palette is dominated by indigo, grey-green, cream, and black, with the red banner as the single strong accent, giving the composition a tense, dramatic mood; per the accompanying facts, this is Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's "Ban Dan'emon rowing beside a steamship," a mokuhanga woodblock print of unknown date.