Ejiri in Suruga Province

The protagonist of this print is the invisible wind. Trees lean sharply and scatter their leaves, and paper that has slipped from a traveler's kimono is drawn up like a ribbon from the lower left of the picture to the upper right. A person holding his hat and bending over, another whose kimono is whipped by the wind, and other fleeting movements are captured as if in a photograph.

Fuji is uncolored and drawn with fine outlines alone. The contrast between the violently moving foreground and the utterly unmoved Fuji is the key to this print. The sky is dark as if dimmed by dust, and at the end of the winding road is a small shrine, behind which the surface of a pond shows white. At the right of Fuji a black, flat mountain shadow is placed, setting off the outline-only Fuji.

Ejiri-juku was a post station on the Tokaido at the lower reaches of the Tomoe River, which flows into Suruga Bay, and was a key point of transport together with the port of Shimizu to the south. According to Shizuoka City materials, there were two honjin, three waki-honjin, and fifty inns. Using the central shrine as a clue, the Yamanashi Prefectural Museum sees the scene as a view of Fuji to the northeast from near Ubagaike, west of the station.