Nissaka on the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô Nissaka), from the series Selected Views of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô fûkei senshû)

Published as part of the series Selected Views of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô fûkei senshû), this print presents Nissaka as one stop within a broader documentation of the historic highway's surviving landscape. Series format shaped Hasui's compositional decisions: each print needed to function individually while reading coherently alongside the others in the set. The Nissaka design within this series may differ in mood or season from the rain-focused impressions produced independently, reflecting the need for variety across a multi-print publication. The old highway at Nissaka—where remnants of the Edo-period road surface and roadside trees persisted into the twentieth century—provided Hasui with material that bridged historical association and observed landscape. Printed on oban-format washi with the refined registration characteristic of Watanabe's production, the image conveys the wooded seclusion of the mountain passage.