The Pine Tree of the Feathered Robe at Miho Bay near Ejiri, cut from sheet 6 of the harimaze series Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

This small woodblock print, with a white image on a black background, imitates the appearance of an ink rubbing. The subject is a pine tree made famous in the Noh play Hagoromo 羽衣, or The Feathered Robe. In it, a goddess known as a tennin 天人 is flying over the pine grove at Miho Bay, and becomes captivated by the beautiful scenery. She removes her magical feathered robe to bathe, hanging it on a pine tree, where it is discovered by a fisherman. He refuses to return the robe until she agrees to dance for him. Since she cannot fly back to her home on the moon without it, she agrees. He returns her robe and she dances, while the chorus describes the beauty of the spring scenery and of her robe. In the end, she returns to the heavens.

Utagawa Hiroshige made more than one famous print series inspired by the 53 way stations on the Tōkaidō, the road that linked Edo (Tokyo) with Kyoto. This print refers to one of those stops and was originally part of a harimaze-e 張交絵 print, reproduced above, a type that included multiple small subjects on a single sheet.