During the Edo period, it was part of the territory of the Owari Domain, governed via Inuyama Castle, located on the opposite bank of the Kiso River, about two kilometers south.

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 246 people in 68 houses, including one honjin, one waki-honjin, and 25 hatago.

Modern Unuma-juku has been preserved with restoration of several of its surviving old buildings, including the waki-honjin, as well as several machiya, a sake brewery and other structures, and (unusually for Japanese towns), the electrical and telephone wires were buried underground.

The old post town contains such historical treasures as Kuan-ji Temple, the ancient tomb of Ishozuka, and haiku-engraved monuments left by Matsuo Bashō.

The print depicts a dramatic and rather stylized view of Inuyama Castle from the Owari side of the Kiso River.