This print is particularly descriptive of the men who made their livings carting kago (palanquin) up and down the Tōkaidō. Known as kumosuke (cloud men), they were the rough, tough, hard-living porters of the road.

Adapted from

Anna McFarland, Ichiryusai Hiroshige: The Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido, Label text, 1986.