Distant View of Mt. Akiba near Kakegawa

A single kite string crosses the top of the picture, and the kite flown high extends beyond the frame. The other kite, its string seemingly cut, drifts unsteadily in the sky. The child on the bridge raises both hands, looks up at the kite, and frolics.

On the bridge, an elderly couple bow deeply to a monk coming from the other direction. The contrast between the people bowing and the child frolicking makes a small story on the bridge. In the field at right, people work bending at the waist.

The blue mountain in the distance is Mount Akiba, which enshrines Akiba Gongen, who was worshiped as a god of fire protection. The stone lantern at the foot of the bridge is also associated with the Akiba faith. It is said that a large torii stood on the east side of Oike Bridge as the entrance to the Akiba Highway, and this print is drawn from the west end of the bridge.

Kakegawa was a post station that was also the castle town of Kakegawa Castle. The castle is not drawn in this print; instead an unremarkable scene was chosen, of people on a bridge at the edge of the station and kites drifting in the sky. The long curve made by the kite string strengthens the horizontal breadth of the picture. At the foot of the bridge stand two lanterns of different shapes.