Bungo Province: Minosaki

Fine waves rise in the sea in the foreground, and from there a gray sandbar extends long from left to right. People walk on the sandbar, and rocks cluster at its tip. In the inlet at left, enclosed by the sandbar, several ships with furled sails lie at anchor.

On the far shore are pine groves and a row of straw-roofed houses, and behind them three gray mountains rise with their summits dyed red. The sky shifts from madder to yellow, suggesting the light of dusk. The curve of the white shoreline gives the picture a soft movement, in contrast with the hardness of the gray mountains.

Minosaki is said to be the area of Sumiyoshihama, the sandbar at the mouth of Morie Bay in present-day Kitsuki. Because a natural sand spit encloses the bay, it was later also called the "Amanohashidate of Bungo." Kitsuki, facing the bay, was a castle town and was known from early times together with its seaside scenery.

The Art Institute of Chicago also holds this same print. The National Diet Library's impression has the same composition. The combination of the white curve of the sandbar and the shape of the mountains with red-dyed summits is memorable, and conveys well the calm of the inlet.