Twilight Snow on Mount Matsuchi (Matsuchiyama no bosatsu), from the series Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Fūryū Edo hakkei)

Sugoroku is played with counters and a single die; the board game involves a race to the finish. The young woman at the right is about to throw the die as the other, casually holding a tobacco pipe, makes her move on the board. Whoever reaches the goal first is the winner. A young man, also smoking, looks on. Despite the cold weather, the shōji are drawn back to reveal Mount Matsuchi, a site in Edo famous for its snowy vistas. The well-structured landscape seems almost like a painting. In the middle ground snow-covered cottages and moored boats are arranged behind trees that are cut off in the foreground by the window frame. On top of the distant cliff at the left stands the famous temple Matsuchiyama Shōden Honryūin 待乳山聖天本龍院, dedicated to the popular cult for the Esoteric Buddhist deity Kangiten. On the right, a bridge crosses San'ya Canal, which flows into the Sumida River.

The series title recalls various sets of landscape paintings capturing the Eight Views of Ōmi, surrounding Lake Biwa near Kyoto, as well as the classical painting theme of the Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers. The poem written at the top, inside a cloud-shaped cartouche, reads:

しら雪の ふりつむ道は まつち山
木ごとに花と 見ゆる夕ぐれ

Shirayuki no
furitsumu michi wa
Matsuchiyama
ki goto ni hana to
miyuru yūgure

Along the road
to Mount Matsuchi,
brilliant snow flutters down
so every tree appears
to be in full bloom at dusk.

(Trans. John T. Carpenter)