Viewing Nakayama from the front of the 4th station

The title locates this print at a yon-gome (4th station) waypoint, the traditional resting points along Japan's pilgrimage and climbing routes, with Nakayama visible across an intervening valley. The Transportation tag suggests the foreground likely incorporates a path, station shelter, or travelers, framing the distant peak as the destination of an unfolding journey. Tokuriki frequently treated mountain views with this layered recession — near foliage in dense color, middle ground softened, and the distant ridgeline rendered in flat color planes typical of mid-century mokuhanga. The stylized treatment of clouds and atmosphere would draw on the [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation technique, where pigment is brushed onto the block in a graded wash before printing. Such station-view compositions belong to the [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) lineage Tokuriki carried forward from the Edo masters, updated through his [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) sensibility — the artist's own hand controlling the cutting and printing rather than relying on a publisher's atelier.