立場（たてば）は、江戸時代に街道の宿場と宿場の間に設けられた休憩所で、馬や駕籠（かご）の交代にも用いられました。明治以降は馬車や人力車、また乗合自動車の発着所として活用されました。
本作品には、春うららかな横浜・金沢の立場で、停車する乗合自動車が描かれています。自動車に乗り込む男性と振り返る運転手、後部座席にはすでに三人の乗客が隙間なく座っています。またお客を見送る茶屋の女性の後姿もみえます。
清方は大正7年（1918）頃から、流行していた新南画の写意的表現に惹かれ、南画風の作品を手がけるようになりました。本作はその一つです。

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A Bower on the Road in Spring (Spring View in Kanazawa) (ca.1920-1926)
pale color on paper; hanging scroll
121.2 x 30.9 cm

Tateba were rest areas set up between post stations along the highways in the Edo period. They were also used as relay stations for horses and palanquins. From the Meiji period on, the tateba became terminals for horse-drawn carriages, rickshaws, and buses.
This work shows a bus stopped at a tateba in Kanazawa, Yokohama, on a beautiful spring day. A man is getting into the vehicle, the driver is looking over his shoulder, and three people are already squeezed into the backseat. A woman, probably the tea house attendant, is escorting her guest to the bus.
Around 1918, Kiyokata tried his hand at painting nanga, a casual style derived from the ink paintings of Chinese scholar-painters, because he was drawn to the impressionable depictions in the new style of nanga. This painting is one of them.