Ono Shinden in Suruga Province

Occupying the lower right of the picture are oxen with high loads of cut reeds. The brown tips of the loads bristle diagonally, and the oxen's legs line up at similar intervals, conveying the pace of carrying heavy burdens. Farmers leading the oxen and people walking with loads on their backs are also drawn. At the left edge, people carrying bundles of grass are walking too.

A white heron flies above the line of oxen, and Fuji rises beyond the marsh. The sky to the right of Fuji is faintly stained red, and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum sees it as an early-morning scene with the eastern sky coloring. Layered indigo gradations on the water's edge of the marsh express the flat expanse of land. The reed beds of the marsh are drawn with fine vertical lines, conveying their dense growth over the whole area.

Ono Shinden was a shinden (a field newly opened up in the Edo period) village created in today's Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, from which Fuji could be seen well from the Tokaido. The Chiba City Museum of Art explains that this print is one of the ten "Ura Fuji" prints added after the 36, and that it makes much use of gradation in Prussian blue (imported blue pigment) to create a refreshing effect.