江戸時代の秋の風情に取材した作品で、遠出した女性が、焚き火の煙を袖でよけて顔を隠しています。
清方が若かりし頃から抱いていた江戸と明治の風俗への興味は、最晩年まで尽きることなく、清方の創作の源であり続けたことがうかがえます。

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Bonfire of Fallen Leaves (c.a.1965)
color on paper; hanging scroll
56.0 × 36.0 cm

In the distance, a woman is shielding her face with her sleeve to ward off the smoke from a bonfire. The work depicts a scene in autumn in the Edo period.
Kiyokata took an interest in Edo and Meiji genre scenes in his youth, and this work suggests that this interest did not fade away, but remained a source of inspiration for his work even in his later years.