Rendered in the style of Meiji-period woodblock prints that documented the rapid modernization of Tokyo, this image places Pepe on a wooden balcony overlooking a rain-soaked Ginza street. Gas lamps cast soft, amber reflections on the wet pavement, where silhouettes of passersby and a horse-drawn carriage move through the misty night. Pepe, dressed in a dark kimono, watches the scene with quiet melancholy, an observer suspended between old Edo and the encroaching modern world. The composition echoes the atmospheric realism of artists like Kobayashi Kiyochika, whose nocturnes captured both the beauty and unease of Japan’s transition into modernity.