The print belongs to the series Fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō, created by Hiroshige between 1833 and 1834. The work represents a detailed "travel diary" in images along the coastal road of Tōkaidō, the most important of the time, desired by Tokugawa Yeyasu, the first shogun of the feudal government. The road, over five hundred kilometers long, connected Edo, the current Tokyo seat of the new government to Kyōto, the ancient capital where the emperor still resided. The stations were places where one had to stop and show one's pass, and where travelers found hotels, horses, freight transporters, ferrymen, crowbars. Among the prints of the series, which had a resounding success, the one representing the Night Snow in Kambara is considered a masterpiece among the representations of snowy landscapes.