Tomikichiro Tokuriki was known for integrating two printmaking movements in Japan known as shin hanga and sōsaku hanga. Shin hanga were prints that depicted "urban Japanese entertaining themselves to distract from the reality of fleeting existence" and whose production was driven by the vision of the publisher instead of individual artists (taken from -myjapanesehanga.com and the artist's biography). Sōsaku hanga was a revival of shin hanga but was artist-driven, and also integrated more Western artistic movements into their compositions. The later movement is apparent in this print as the artist has transposed semi-abstracted monuments that lack the detail typical of the earlier style but used the composition to affirm each monument through association with the others. Tokuriki flooded the atmosphere with color instead of open space, another indication of the exploration of more modern, Western styles.