This picture gives a full view of the Yushima Seidō with Kanda River in the foreground. The private boarding-school of Hayashi Razan in Ueno-Shinobugaoka was moved here in 1690 and named the Seidō. It was set up as a school under the direct control of the Bakufu government in the Kansei era. The Shōhei-zaka Gakumonjo, where students read kanbun (reading Chinese texts in Japanese) for the purposes of proofreading, was located in the area where "此辺学問所 (location of school)" is written." A description in the picture reads "The first school of its kind in Japan and a most glorious place of Tokyo."