The Timberyard at Tatekawa in Honjo

Long, thin timbers leaned up in numbers on the right stretch into the sky like a bamboo grove. Fuji is white and visible only in the gaps between timbers, and the lumberyard rather than the mountain is the star of the scene. On the high stack of timber at left, a man tosses scraps of wood down, while the man below raises both hands to catch them. In the center, a sawyer works on a platform, pulling a large saw through timber.

The tag at lower right reads "Nishimura Lumberyard." The publisher of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji was Nishimuraya Yohachi of Eijudo, so it is interesting that the name "Nishimura," the same as the publisher's, appears on the lumberyard tag.

Honjo Tatekawa lies along the Tatekawa canal, which runs east to west through today's Sumida Ward. According to the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, there were many lumber wholesalers here, and after the Great Fire of Meireki, timber used for rebuilding after fires was stockpiled.

This print is one of the ten added after the publication of the original 36. According to the explanation by the Chiba City Museum of Art, the ten additional prints are also called "Ura Fuji" (Fuji from the back), and use black ink (sumi) rather than the indigo of the original 36 for the key block that prints the lines.