Sakamoto

In the foreground, the station's main street is seen looking down diagonally through pine trees. A blue channel runs through the middle of the street, with small bridges spanning it here and there. Houses with yellow and blue roofs line both sides of the road, and travelers, people carrying goods, and horses come and go in front of the shops.

Behind the row of houses, a great mountain covered with green trees rises, occupying half the picture. Brown streaks run along the mountainside, and distant blue ranges peek out at back right. The contrast between the bustle of people and the size of the mountain expresses well the station's position before the pass.

Sakamoto-juku was a station between the Usui checkpoint and Usui Pass, where travelers crossing the pass made their preparations. Two honjin and two waki-honjin were placed there, and as in the print, an irrigation channel is said to have run through the middle of the street.

The title is the same "Kiso Kaido Rokujukyu-tsugi no uchi" as in Hiroshige's prints, but this is a print by Eisen. The Tokyo National Museum regards it as an unsigned Eisen print. The composition looking down on the station from a high place is, even among Eisen's prints, one that shows the layout of a town well, and conveys the bustle of a station before crossing the pass.