It is located in former Mino Province in what is now part of the town of Mitake, Kani District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan[1] In the early Edo period, the system of post stations on the Nakasendō was formalized by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1602; however, Fushimi-juku was to established until 92 years later when changes in the flow of the Kiso River shifted the location where ferries could cross further upstream.

It originally prospered as the place where payments of land tax in the form of rice were loaded onto barges and shipped down to the coast towards Nagoya.

Per the 1843 "中山道宿村大概帳" (Nakasendō Shukuson Taigaichō) guidebook issued by the Inspector of Highways (道中奉行, Dōchu-būgyō), the town had a population of 485 people in 82 houses, including one honjin, one waki-honjin, and 29 hatago.

To the left approaches a doctor, with a parasol, with a single sword and red furoshiki with medical supplies indicating his profession and status.

To the right is a party of three blind female musicians, bearing shamisen, who appear to be making for the post station, which is show in the very far left distance.