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He completed this series with 69 pictures(68 old Japanese countries and Edo City) and table of contents. The series contains the famous Awa Naruto whirlpool in the part of Minamikaido. It is said Hiroshige had referred to the work of Katsushika Hokusai‘s The Great Wave off Kanagawa in drawing this picture. Also, Hokusai painted Mino ‘s Yoro Falls in ”A Tour of Japanese Waterfalls” about 20 years before Hiroshge. It would be interesting to compare how two ukiyo-e artists represented the same waterfall.
The gallery of “Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces”