Utagawa Yoshitoyo
The production date: 1854-1866 (Ansei 1- Keiou 2)

This is the series of prints that gathered the routes of the Toukaidou Highway in a compact volume . Mt. Fuji is illustrated as to cover the whole picture and a poem “Mt. Fuji that can be seen today and yesterday.” is written at the left edge of the picture,.

Utagawa Hiroshige II
1856

Utagawa Hiroshige Ⅱ 1865 This is a sugoroku based on illustrations from Hiroshige I's Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces. Since the original illustrations were a large-format nishiki-e, some details have been omitted, but the compositions within each single square are faithful to the originals.

Utagawa Kuniteru
1865

This work is a sugoroku board game depicting the Toukaidou Highway in spaces shaped like Japanese fans. The word Suehiro in the title refers to a Japanese fan. The starting point of this sugoroku is Nihonbashi, located in the lower right corner and the goal is Kyoto, located in the center. In each space a procession of people are depicted and in the space for Kyoto, a man wearing a sokutai, a traditional Japanese formalwear for the members of the imperial court, is depicted giving a document to a man. These depictions hint that the subject of this sugoroku was the great procession of 14th shogun Tokugawa Iemochi to Kyoto that took place in 1863.

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This illustration is seemingly showing the course of “Miyuki” ―the route Emperor and the Emperor Emeritus travelling away from his palace. This seemingly old, simply printed edition has over a hundred names of geographical places described in its space that include popular tourist spots. It starts at Ousaka, visiting places such as the Ise Shrine, Enoshima Island and Kamakura reaching the goal in the Edo city. Enoshima Island is reached by a sand bar from the Fujisawa Post Station.

Utagawa Hiroshige
1847-52

In this sugoroku board game, the pictures of famous shrines and temples are illustrated in the order of former Japanese alphabet “i-ro-ha”. The letter “i” corresponds with the Ikegami Hon’mon-ji Temple, the letter “ro” corresponds with the Rokuamida (the Six Amida), and the letter “ha” corresponds to Hakusan Gongen. The Enoshima Island is also illustrated at the letter “e”.

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1843-47

The themes of this sugoroku board game are events and customs of the four seasons, and players take turns to roll dice and move their piece the number of space rolled.
The starting point, which is illustrated on the left upper part is the space for “Enoshima” and the picture of women heading to Enoshima in the early summer season is illustrated. During the Edo period, people recognized the pilgrimage to Enoshima was the event for the early summer.

Totoya Hokkei

This sugoroku boardgame follows each post station along the Tōkaidō Highway. Artist Totoya Hokkei's seal can be found in the starting space of Nihonbashi. He was known for creating commissioned prints called surimono that were usually made for kyōka poems. From this, it is very rare to find a sugoroku by Hokkei. However, true to his roots, Hokkei includes a kyōka poem written by various poets about each post station with an illustration of figures and landscapes meticulously drawn in the lower half of each space. For the Fujisawa post station space, a traveler bathes in a goemon-style bathtub with a poem about how crowded the post station gets in the summer months due to pilgrims heading to Enoshima and Mt. Ōyama.

The sugoroku boardgame begins at Ōsaka's port Ōsaka Hakken-ya, and ends at the Edo capital. The poems included in each space are written by famous actors from Ōsaka and kyōka poets from Naniwa region in Ōsaka and Owari province. According to the publication information listed on the right of the print, this sugoroku was most likely made to be sold on New Years. The publisher's address lists Shinkyō-bashi in Ōsaka. Yoshiiku most likely was commissioned to create this work as he was based in the Edo capital.

The space for Fujisawa post station includes a poem by Kabuki Actor Morita Kanya XI. The poem discusses Yugyō-ji temple and Oguri Hangan, a legendary figure with deep ties to Fujisawa area, refering to his journey from the temple grounds to Kumano hot springs on a cart in order to heal his emaciated and sickly body.