This work depicts a stone-piled boat (Sode-no-watari) going down the river through which four Japanese poems are flowing, based on the theme of "Sode-no-watari," an ancient Japanese poem located on the old Kitakami River.
There is no proof that Sode no Watari, a favorite poem subject since the Heian period (794-1185), is located in Ishinomaki,
and the fact that the aristocrats who wrote the poem visited that far away is also unknown, but the sentimentality of the words must have stimulated the imagination, even without seeing the site.