Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Lower Meguro (Shimo-Meguro) | Edo period, 19th century

Although now a bustling, central district of modern day Tokyo, Meguro was still a largely rural area in the 1830s outside of the capital of Edo. Thatched dwellings and bales of straw are partially veiled by the low sitting band of suyarigasumi [lit. spear mist] clouds. A farmer ascends a slope with a hoe resting on his shoulder, a mother holding the hand of her son carries a baby on her back, and two hawkers seem to converse next to a further farmer crouched beside them. In the distance, a snow-capped Mount Fuji is visible over the meandering pathway leading to the Fudo temple, almost half hidden by a hillock

For a similar impression in the collection of The British Museum, museum number 1937,0710,0.143, go to: 

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1937-0710-0-143