The painting depicts travelers going down the Tokaido from Edo walked to Totsuka and Hodogaya instead of Shinagawa in a day. On the other hand, after climbing the Tokaido, the Daimyō procession reassembled and repaired the procession in Shinagawa in advance of climbing Mt. Fuji.

Katsushika Hokusai, also known as Hokusai is a Japanese ukiyo-e painter who focused on lithographs produced in japan using a technique of wooden blocks between the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries. Most of his paintings were landscapes, historical scenes or theatrical/delightful scenes.