Totomi Bank of the Oi River near Kanaya

In the stream in the foreground, porters carrying rendai make their last crossing through the water. On the gravel bank in the middle, a party that has finished crossing advances in a line, and at the far bank porters who have set down their customers are seen catching their breath. The people are small, but each one's movement is finely drawn.

The title's Engan means the bank on the Totomi (present-day western Shizuoka Prefecture) side. While the previous Shimada print looked down on only the gravel bank and the stream, this print places a large mountain range at the back and draws the settlement of Kanaya-juku small on the mountainside in front of it.

The picture is put together mainly in gray and pale green, and the blue of the stream is especially vivid. The top of the sky is shaded orange. Placing the two prints on either side of the Oi River side by side lets one follow the difficult river crossing from both banks.

Leaving Kanaya-juku, the road immediately climbs a steep slope and continues to Sayo no Nakayama, between it and the next station, Nissaka-juku. For travelers who had just crossed the river, another difficult place awaited. The mountain range towering at the back of the picture also suggests the harshness of the road ahead.