The New York Shimpo (New York, 1919) praised this work, which depicts the interior of a crowded subway car with geometric lines, as “expressing a Futurist mood without regret, with a pleasing brushstroke and orderly harmony. (Ishigaki Crucible, “Independence”). (Ishigaki Rutsubo, “
Independent Art Association’s Japanese Painter,” The New York Shimpo, April 2, 1919).