View of Mt. Fuji from the Hakone mountains.

This print presents Kiyochika's view of Mount Fuji from the Hakone mountain region, a subject he treated in several related compositions. The Hakone range, southwest of Tokyo along the old Tōkaidō highway, provided a dramatic landscape context in which Fuji could be depicted across layers of forested ridges. Kiyochika's approach to such landscapes characteristically employed bokashi gradations in deep blue and gray-green to establish atmospheric depth, with the summit emerging from mist or rendered in pale, thinly applied pigment against a graded sky. The composition likely employs a high vantage point with descending terrain in the foreground, positioning the viewer within the mountain environment rather than observing from the Kantō plain below. As a meisho-e subject, the Hakone view of Fuji carried established associations with the Tōkaidō journey and pilgrimage traditions linked to Fuji worship. Kiyochika's version engages this iconographic legacy while inflecting it with the tonal sensitivity of his kōsen-ga practice.