Snow at Yamanaka Village (formally known as Mt. Miyaji) near Fujikawa

Hiroshige's most celebrated series, Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, was published in 1833. Because of its extreme popularity, many versions depicting the Tokaido Road were published with slightly different titles and scenes in horizontal and vertical formats. This edition, Pictures of Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations (in vertical format), was one of the artist's most ambitious works in his later years.
Fujikawa is the thirty-eighth station on the Tokaido Road. Yamanaka Village was formerly known as Mount Miyaji. Hiroshige depicts the snow-covered mountain village from a bird's-eye view. A procession of a regional lord (daimyo) slowly descends the pass to this small village. As in all Japanese prints of this period, accumulated snow is rendered not by using white pigment, but by leaving these areas uncolored, and delineating their shapes with lines.