14th Station: Yoshiwara

In this print, a man leads a horse carrying three women along a tree-lined road running through rice fields. This section of highway was lined with pine trees for the comfort of travelers. Mount Fuji looms in the distance on the left. Up until this point in the journey, Mount Fuji could always be seen to the right of the travelers coming from Edo. However, as they traveled inland, Mount Fuji came into view to their left, thus the view came to be called "Fuji to the Left".

Yoshiwara was originally located near the present-day Yoshiwara Station, on the modern Tokaido Main Line railway, but after a destructive tsunami in 1639 and another in 1680, the post station was rebuilt further inland. Although most of the route of the Tokaido in Sagami and Suruga Provinces paralleled the seashore as the name "East Sea Route" implied, at Hara travelers walked away from the sea.