doi:10.7916/d8-2kj2-pb17Mitsuke, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the TōkaidōKatsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849printsstill imageAbout halfway between Edo (current-day Tokyo) and Kyoto, Mitsuke was the twenty-eighth station of the Tōkaidō. In this image, Hokusai chose to focus, in the foreground, on a spear-bearing assistant and a pack-horse, relegating the Mitsuke landscape to the background.