Tagonoura Bay near Ejiri on the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Ejiri Tagonoura ryakuzu), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Tagonoura Bay near Ejiri on the Tokaido is one of Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, designed around 1825. The print looks across the famous bay of Tagonoura on the Tokaido road, where boats are at work in coastal salt production and fishing while Mount Fuji rises directly behind them in clear daylight. Hokusai stages the scene with a row of vessels in the middle distance, their sails reefed in for the day, and a foreground of figures, sheds, and netting that gives the picture a sense of busy economic life. The mountain is rendered in its classic conical profile, partly veiled by haze that softens its base and emphasizes its monumental scale. The imported Prussian blue pigment is layered across the sea, sky, and shadowed slopes of Fuji, binding the composition into a single tonal register characteristic of the Fugaku sanjurokkei series. As an ukiyo-e print, the design joins literary tradition, since Tagonoura had long been celebrated in poetry, to contemporary Edo ukiyo-e landscape practice. The Art Institute of Chicago holds this impression, where Katsushika Hokusai's late style is documented in depth and where this view appears as a key example of how he integrated meisho-e tradition with his own modern, observation-rich landscape design.