The Hall of Thirty-three Bays at Fukagawa

A long vermilion hall crosses the middle of the picture diagonally from lower left to upper right. In the foreground are a cedar tree and people walking in front of the hall. Beyond the hall a road continues lined with teahouses and houses, and further on a water surface with floating timber spreads out, where masts stand like a forest. Small figures of people passing beneath the hall's veranda are also drawn.

The vermilion of the hall and gray of the roof, the blue of the water, and the green of the trees are vividly contrasted. The long hall drawn large on a diagonal emphasizes its length.

The Sanjusangendo in Fukagawa was a hall built on the model of the Sanjusangendo in Kyoto, where the archery contest of shooting arrows from one end of the hall to the other, known as toshiya, was held. The nearby Kiba was a gathering place for timber that supported the building of the city of Edo. The hall is said to have been moved from Asakusa to Fukagawa in the Genroku era and became one of Fukagawa's sights.

This print belongs to the summer section, and its censor's seal dates it to the eighth month of Ansei 4 (1857). Because the hall was demolished in the Meiji period, this print also serves as a record of a lost Edo building.