清方は、戦争末期の昭和19年（1944）から茅ヶ崎に疎開し、終戦間際に御殿場へ再疎開しました。美人画が描きにくかった暗い時代を経て、昭和21年（1946）春に鎌倉・材木座に転居し、本格的に美人画制作を再開させます。
　本作品には、萩の花に耳を寄せ、姿が見えない虫の音に聞き入る江戸の女性が描かれています。

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Insect Singing (1947)
color on silk; hanging scroll
115.8 x 26.9 cm

Toward the end of the war, in 1944, Kiyokata was evacuated to Chigasaki and then to Gotemba, just before the end of the war. After a dark period in which he found it difficult to paint bijinga, Kiyokata moved to Zaimokuza in Kamakura in 1946, where he once again started to work on his bijinga paintings.
He purposely omitted the insects in this painting, focusing instead on the flowering bush clover and the intently listening attitude of the woman dressed in the style of the women of Edo.