Ishibe was about five miles west of Mizuguchi. Hiroshige's picture is not of Ishibe itself, but of a village named Menokawa, between Ishibe and Kusatsu.
The special dishes served in this district were bean curd coated with bean paste and rice boiled with leafy vegetables. The building shown here is a shop selling these delicacies.
As in the previous picture, Hiroshige seems to have been working from a model that appeared in the Famous Places on the Tokaido, Illustrated. In this instance even the name of the shop, Iseya, is the same. Still, the trees and the distant mountains are Hiroshige's own additions.