View of Mount Fuji from Satta-rei, Meiji period, dated 1896

Satta-tōge, the mountain pass in Shizuoka Prefecture along the former Tōkaidō road, offers one of the most celebrated prospects of Mount Fuji across Suruga Bay. Kiyochika's 1896 print, firmly dated within the late Meiji period, depicts this classic viewpoint from the steep ridge where the old highway traversed the coastal headland. By 1896 Kiyochika had moved somewhat away from the concentrated atmospheric experiments of his early kōsen-ga work toward broader landscape conventions, though his sensitivity to light—here perhaps the silver sheen of the bay or afternoon haze softening the mountain's outline—remained evident. The composition likely places Fuji in the middle distance beyond the water, with the pass's rugged terrain framing the foreground. Satta-tōge carried strong pictorial associations through Hiroshige's earlier Tōkaidō series, and Kiyochika's treatment implicitly engages that tradition while reflecting the changed optical sensibility of Meiji-era printmaking.