One of the representative works of landscape painting of Ryusei was "Road Cut through a Hill" which was completed in 1915 and sent to the second Sodosha-ten in the next year.
大正4年に描かれ、翌年の第2回草土社展に出品された『切通しの写生（道路と土手と塀）』は劉生の風景画の代表作の一つである。