The scenes of lonely fishermen or tiny riverside hamlets found in Chinese art and poetry influenced various reactions in Japan such as the paintings of imagined landscapes by artists of several schools, Kano, Rimpa, and Nanga, but the Ukiyo-e artists supported the Eight Views of Omi and sometimes parodies of them.
There is an implied critique even a subversive of formal Kano aesthetics in this scene.
These are real boats and the sails dominate the composition as much as the mountains and water and the vastness of the lake is a place of significant human activity fishing and trading boats.
Next time more Hakkei ...
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