View of Miyanoshita Hot Springs in Hakone, Soshu, from the series "Hot Springs - A Diptych (Onsen niban tsuzuki)"

View of Miyanoshita Hot Springs in Hakone, Soshu, from the series Hot Springs - A Diptych (Onsen niban tsuzuki), is a Keisai Eisen design in the Art Institute of Chicago, dated to circa 1820. The Miyanoshita springs in the Hakone mountains of Sagami Province (Soshu) were among the most celebrated hot-spring resorts of late-Edo Japan, frequented by both Tokaido travelers and pleasure-seekers from the capital. Eisen, working within the meisho-e tradition of pictures of famous places, treats the resort as a stack of mountain slopes from which a cluster of wooden inns descends in irregular terraces toward a stream. Tiny figures of bathers, travelers, and inn staff animate the courtyards and walkways, each rendered with the linear shorthand that allowed Edo ukiyo-e to register human presence at landscape scale. The print's color palette favors deep blues for the distant peaks, warm tans for the wooden architecture, and muted greens for the surrounding foliage, with bokashi gradation used to soften the transitions. Across the upper field, banks of cloud thread between the mountains, evoking the steam that gave the place its identity. As one half of a diptych, the sheet would have functioned in dialogue with a companion view of another hot-spring resort. The Art Institute of Chicago places the work among Eisen's substantial body of landscape designs of the 1820s, demonstrating how a designer once devoted primarily to bijin-ga had taken up the meisho-e mode that Hokusai and Hiroshige would soon develop further. The print is a useful example of late-Edo ukiyo-e attentive to the geography of leisure.