Lower Meguro

Many round hills overlap in the picture, and on the slope at right spread fields with neatly ordered furrows. Following the path from the thatched farmhouse at lower left, the summit of Fuji can be seen at the bottom of a hollow, and from there the path turns and climbs a hill. On top of the hill two pines rise tall, conveying the breadth of the sky.

The figures are also finely drawn. In the middle of the path are two falconers with hawks perched on their hands, and a farmer in the field listens to their talk. A person heading to the field with a hoe on his shoulder and a farm mother and child are also drawn, conveying the daily life of the village. Fuji merely peeps modestly between the hills, and the protagonists are Meguro's undulations and its life.

Meguro, in Edo's southwestern suburbs, was a farming village with many fields and also a hunting ground where the shogun went hawking. It is also known as the setting of the rakugo story "Meguro no Sanma." Because falconers are depicted, the Yamanashi Prefectural Museum surmises that this is a view from Shimo-Meguro toward Hiyomon Village, where the falconers' quarters stood. According to Meguro Ward, of the hunting grounds along the Meguro route, Komabano was the most frequently used, and Hiyomon-hara was also used for falconry.