Chômei-ji in Ômi Province, No. 31 of the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei sanjûichiban Ômi Chômei-ji), from the series Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)

「観音霊験記　西国巡礼　三十一番　近江　（おうみ）　長命寺　（ちょうめいじ）」

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869)
Publisher: Yamadaya Shôjirô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1859 (Ansei 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 x 23.7 cm (14 1/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1134

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné C's Ukiyo-e Museum, http://homepage2.nifty.com/ukiyo-e/index.html; Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #29-31; Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Ukiyoeshitachi no shinbutsu (1999), #8

DescriptionThe story of Sawara Tôjûrô.

Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (below); Hiroshige ga (above)
豊国画(年玉枠)

Marks Censor's seal: (almost cut off of this impression)
No blockcutter's mark

Inscriptions第三十一番　近江長命寺

八千とせや
柳に長き命寺
はこぶあゆみのかざしなるらん

本尊　千手十一面観音
開基　聖徳太子

佐原籐十郎

藤十郎は越前の者にて／父母を失ひてのち家財を売払ひて路銀となし／都へ上るみち江州志賀の里にて盗賊に出合／衣類等剥取れ／水中へ捨られしところ／肌着のうちに此長命寺の守佛ありて／ふしぎと光りを放ちければ／漁夫の夜網にかかりて引あげられ蘇生りしかば佛力を尊び／終に長命寺の住僧の弟子となりて普門品をおこたらず誦し／後に堅田村に堂を建て／その命の助かりたる守佛を安置して／猶ふしぎの霊験を蒙りたるとなり／又当山の観音は疱瘡を守り玉ひて／信ずる者はさらに怪我なしといふなり

ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)