Boundary Marker near Fujikawa

At the center of the picture stands a tall boji-gui stake marking the boundary of the post station, with a notice board posted beside it. This place at the entrance of the station is the bohana. In the left foreground, people who appear to be post-station officials bow with their hands on the ground to welcome the procession. Behind the stake, a large leafy tree spreads its branches.

In the procession advancing from the right is a horse bearing a white gohei (a paper ornament used in Shinto rites). The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum identifies this as the procession of the Hassaku Onma Shinken, in which the shogunate presented horses to the imperial court on Hassaku (the first day of the eighth lunar month). There is a theory that Hiroshige joined this party on his journey along the Tokaido, which led to the making of the series. In the procession, attendants in hats advance overlapping one another.

At the officials' feet, two small dogs look toward the procession. Adding small dogs to a solemn ceremonial setting gives the picture some softness. Beyond the road between a stone wall and an embankment spread rice paddies, and faint red clouds float in the sky. The print cuts out a moment of ceremony at the boundary every traveler into and out of the post station had to pass.