Along the Tate River, a tributary canal of the Sumida River, there was an area called Honjo Tategawa, where many lumber wholesalers were located at that time.

The eye-catching feature of this image might be the many straight lines depicting lumber; some of the boards are quite wide and thick, some are narrow and long, and some are cut short and piled high.

Among the many vertically stored narrow boards on the right, the shape of Mount Fuji covered with thick snow can be seen. The two men on the left, one tossing a piece of wood up to the other man standing at the top of the pile, remind us of this image.

In the lower right, the horizontal sign reads 西村置場 Nishimura Okiba, "okiba" means storage place. Since the original publisher was Nishimura-ya Yohachi, Hokusai seems to have playfully included the name here.

It is a well known fact among woodblock carvers that carving straight lines is very difficult, and only experienced and skilled craftsmen are able to do this work.