Katsuhika Hokusai (1760-1849)

The scene shows a part of a procession of retainers of a feudal lord, their guns wrapped in red cloth, passing through Senju, the first station on the Nikko Road, which ran northeast of Edo. From the color of the fields and the snowcap of Mount Fuji, the season is late autumn. Some of the samurai have turned their heads to take in the view. In the middle distance is the privately run pleasure district of Senju enclosed by a wood fence.