Most likely Hokusai relied upon travelers' accounts and secondhand descriptions for this composition of the remote Amida waterfall, but the ocular source from which the downward cascade of water surges is actually a plausible interpretation of written reports. Hokusai's cropped viewpoint leaves the viewer to imagine the immensity and power of the waterfall as it drops to the inevitable pool below. Dwarfed by nature's awesome stature, the artist's figures have chosen for their picnic a precarious position on a cliff jutting over the falls.