Hoki Province: Distant View of Mount Daisen from Ono

In the paddies in the foreground, people in sedge hats and straw raincoats bend over to plant seedlings. Figures carrying bundles of seedlings are lined up, large near and small far. Beyond the paddies is a grove of cedars, and past it rises the dark shape of Mount Daisen wrapped in a band of cloud.

Thin lines of rain are drawn diagonally across the whole picture, and sky and mountain sink into gray-blue. Against this, the yellow of the hats and raincoats floats in bright dots, setting off the fieldwork on a rainy day. Cutting the mountainside with a band of cloud conveys the mountain's size and distance.

Daisen is the tallest mountain in the Chugoku region and has long been a sacred site of mountain worship. Just where Ono in the title refers to is not clear, but it is thought to be one of the farming villages at the foot of the mountain with a view of Daisen, and here the print is treated as depicting Daisen, as the title says.

This is one of the prints that depict the life and seasons of the land rather than a famous site itself. It is placed after Inaba in the series, and impressions with the same composition are held by the Tokyo National Museum and the National Diet Library. The depiction of rain in thin lines is a specialty of Hiroshige, known from works such as "Shono" in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido.