Desolate Wintry Scene, Hamamatsu, from the series the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Hoeido edition)

Desolate rice paddies and fields in the background, palanquin bearers warm themselves by the bonfire at the base of a large tree to the side of the highway. Hamamatsu Castle and the castle town can be seen in the distance  The pine grove on the right side, called “the za-zan-sa pines,” is where the Muromachi Shogunate sixth generation shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori held a banquet and sang that “the sound of Hamamatsu is za-zan-sa,”