It was a custom of the Tokugawa Bakufu to make a presentation of horses at theImperial Court in Kyoto on the first day of the eighth month each year. According to Hiroshige III in Utagawa retsuden, Hiroshige was one of the officials who joined the delegation in an early year of Tempo (Uchida and Suzuki surmise that this was Tempo 3 [1832]). Out of this journey came one of the most famous landscape series in the history of Ukiyo-e, Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi 'The fifty-three stations of the Tokaido'. Hiroshige passed through Kambara during the late summer or early autumn, but decided to show the scene in mid-winter, having found nothing of specific interest. In doing so, Hiroshige created one of the masterpieces of the series