Totomi Province: Kanzan Temple at Horie on Lake Hamana and the Inasa Inlet

On the green hill at upper left, rocks and a hall can be seen, and at its foot spread tile-roofed houses and a pine grove. This is the area of Horie, where Kanzan-ji stands. In the foreground a sandy beach with a white waterline curves in a great arc, boats are drawn up on it, and people walk along it.

The deep indigo surface of the lake winds into the distance through the center of the picture. In the middle of the water floats a small island with pines, and farther back a shore with white cliffs and gray mountains overlap. The printing, which darkens the middle of the lake, conveys the depth and breadth of the water.

The Inasa Inlet is a long, narrow inlet reaching into the northeast of Lake Hamana, a poetic place name (utamakura) mentioned in the Man'yoshu. Kanzan-ji is a temple said to have been founded by Kobo Daishi, standing on a cape jutting into the lake. The Imagire ferry at the south of the lake was also a difficult point on the Tokaido, and Lake Hamana was a landscape familiar to travelers.

With three place names in the title, this design gathers the lake's famous places in one picture. The undulation of the lake surface, which links the cape temple to the inlet at the lake's far end, can be called its ingenuity. The impressions at the National Diet Library and the Tokyo National Museum have the same composition.