Sunset across Ryogoku Bridge from the Bank of the Sumida River at Onmayagashi

The upper part of the sky has sunk into darkness, and Fuji is drawn as a blue-black silhouette. It is the form of the mountain at dusk, only the outline remaining against the setting sun. To the left the long Ryogoku Bridge extends horizontally, and many boats float on the river. The boats on the water are drawn smaller the farther they are, giving a sense of the river's breadth.

In the foreground, a ferry carrying passengers has just left the shore. One person opens a large umbrella, another sits hugging baggage, and another reaches over the side of the boat to dip a hand towel in the river. The water beneath the boat swells in many layers of deep indigo, in contrast to the calm distant view. Behind the boat, a boatman pushes the oar, and boxes, buckets, and other cargo are loaded in the boat.

Onmayagashi was a riverside landing on the west bank of the Sumida River, and its name comes from the stables there for horses carrying rice from the shogunate's rice storehouses. A crossing called the "Onmaya Ferry" linked it with the opposite bank. Judging from the position of Fuji, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum thinks the view was taken from around the north side of today's Umaya Bridge. In the lower left, a plank-floored landing is drawn, showing that this is a ferry crossing.