Distant View of Mount Fuji from Omiya Station

At the left foreground stands a small roofed shrine, in front of which a man carrying a load and a child with a basket on the back walk. At right, two palanquin bearers run briskly with a passenger, and a traveler in a hat follows them. In the middle, several piles of reddish-brown rice straw are stacked, with a little smoke rising.

In the center of the picture two blossoming cherry trees stretch up, and between their branches snow-covered Mount Fuji peeks out. To the right an ocher cliff continues, with cherry trees lined up on top of it too. The sky is deep indigo above and pale near the horizon, making the sense of distance clear.

The name Omiya comes from Hikawa Shrine, the Ichinomiya (first shrine) of Musashi Province, and the post town is said to have been established to the west, moved from the shrine's approach. From this area in the middle of the Kanto Plain, Mount Fuji could be seen far away on clear days.

This is a print by Eisen, titled "Kisokaido," with his signature and the publisher's seal. Near the start of the series, Eisen adds Mount Asama in the distance at Urawa and Mount Fuji at Omiya and Konosu, drawing in the mountains visible from the Kanto Plain like landmarks of the journey.