[1] The Ozawa family managed the honjin in the town and kept many records, which are still available today in a local archives museum.

[1] The post station received its name from the nearby Buddhist temple of Ishiyakushi-ji, which claims to have been founded in 726 AD by the shugendō monk Taichō.

Per the 1843 "東海道宿村大概帳" (Tōkaidō Shukuson Taigaichō) guidebook issued by the Inspector of Highways (道中奉行, Dōchu-būgyō), the town had a population of 991 in 180 houses, with three honjin, and 15 hatago, indicating the small scale of the settlement.

Near the site of the honjin is the preserved house of Nobutsuna Sasaki, a famous tanka poet and scholar who was born in 1872.

The print does depicts the temple in a grove of trees on the left and a village on the right, with the Suzuka Mountains in the background.