Kōnosu-shuku

Due to the distance between Kōnosu-shuku and Kumagai-shuku, an ai no shuku, Fukiage-shuku was located in-between.

The reason for the move is unclear today, but in its new location the Nakasendō was not the only road running through Kōnosu-shuku.

At the entrance to the post station is Shōgan-ji, a large temple in the Jōdoshū sect.

The print does now actually show the post station at all, but a landscape with a zig-zag road presumably between Kōnosu and Kumagaya, dominated by a large snow-capped Mount Fuji in the background.

In the foreground is a "komusō" mendicant monk with a distinctive straw hat, and a porter heading in the opposite direction with a "kiseru" Japanese smoking pipe.