View of Awaji Island, from an untitled series of Landscapes

Listed under Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918) in the [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e).org archive, "View of Awaji Island, from an untitled series of Landscapes" belongs to the modernized topographic genre that flowed from late Edo [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) into Meiji and Taisho woodblock practice. Awaji Island lies between Honshu and Shikoku in the Seto Inland Sea, long celebrated in literature and pilgrimage routes for its temperate climate, distinctive coastline, and sweeping views across the strait. Seitei was a foundational Meiji [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) designer trained in the Maruyama-Shijo school under Kikuchi Yosai, and his early travel abroad to the 1878 Paris Exposition helped position him as a quiet bridge between traditional bird-and-flower painting and the emerging Nihonga aesthetic. While he is most associated with refined bird-and-flower prints, his name appears in dealer and archive records on a wider range of landscape and figure subjects from his circle. An "untitled series of Landscapes" is a common attribution form for late-Meiji and Taisho prints whose original sequence and publisher details have not survived intact, often grouped under a leading designer's name based on style or signature. The image is preserved through ukiyo-e.org's federated catalogue of Japanese prints, which supports comparison across museum and dealer holdings.