doi:10.7916/d8-y0pe-se54Arai, from the series Fifty-Three Stations of TōkaidōKatsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849printsstill imageIn this depiction of Arai, the thirty-first station of the Tōkaidō, Hokusai shows an official checking the documents of a traveler at Arai's inspection station by the shore of the Hamanako lagoon. Travelers arrived at Arai by crossing the lagoon by boat. On the righthand side of the image, an assistant loads pack-horses with bundles from a moored boat.