View of Amanohashidate

Near the center of the picture are Amanohashidate, with its white sand and green pines, and Chionji Temple. Above it, across Aso Sea, lie the townscape of Fuchu with its temples and shrines, and further back a great mountain and the buildings of Nariaiji Temple. Below the sandbar spreads Miyazu Bay, and the mountains of the Kurita Peninsula lie gently along the bottom edge. Place names are also written into the picture.

It is based on the actual scenery, but is not simply a record of it. The mountain on which Nariaiji stands is made extremely high, and the townscape of Fuchu is stretched sideways. In fact, there is no place from which Hashidate can be seen from such a height. It has been pointed out that this reflects Sesshu's awareness of the methods of composing landscapes he acquired in his study of Chinese painting, especially the bird's-eye (looking-down) composition of pictures of West Lake, a famous place in China.

The picture has no signature or seal, but it is attributed to Sesshu from its brushwork, composition and the style of the place-name lettering. The brushwork is rough and carries the momentum of having been painted in one go. It is painted on paper made of twenty-one small sheets of differing sizes pasted together irregularly, and as there are also traces of repainting, it is thought likely to have been a preliminary sketch rather than a finished picture. It is held by the Kyoto National Museum.