Tsubosaka-dera in Yamato Province, No. 6 of the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei rokuban Yamato Tsubosaka-dera), from the series Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)

「観音霊験記　西国巡礼　六番　大和　（やまと）　壷坂寺　（つぼさかでら）」

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)

Japanese

Edo period

1859 (Ansei 6)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 x 23.6 cm (14 1/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1147

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), #29-6; Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Ukiyoeshitachi no shinbutsu (1999), #6

DescriptionThe story of Sukaru.
栖軽

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

Marks Censor's seal: (cut off of this impression)
Blockcutter's mark: Yokokawa Hori Take
改印: (裁断不明)
彫師: 横川彫竹

Inscriptions第六番　大和壺坂寺

岩をたて
水をたたへて壺坂の
庭のいさごも浄土なるらん

本尊　千手千眼観音　
開基　弁基上人

栖軽

雄略天皇二十三年／帝大安殿に在ますとき／俄に風雨雷電はげしく発しければ／随身小兵部栖軽に詔して／「汝急ぎ雷神を捕り来るべし」と勅命を蒙る／直に馬を馳て阿部山の方に追行／轟きわたる虚空を白眼て／「吾朝の空なり　勅命を知らずや」と大音に罵りしかども／雷鳴止らず／栖軽／壺坂寺の方にむかひて／「観音薩た　王土をあに擁護あらざるや」と言ひつつ／かの普門品の妙文「雲雷鼓掣電　降雹じゅ大雨　念彼観音力　應時得消散」と時念しければ／御寺の方より異光はためくと見えけるより／さながら烈しき雷／豊浦と飯岡の間に落ちたるを／生捕て／王宮へ献じければ／殿上人賞せぬ者なく／是より神取栖軽と号けり

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)