Iwama-dera in Ômi Province, No.12 of the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei jûniban Ômi Iwama-dera), from the series Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)

「観音霊験記　西国巡礼　二十四番　近江　（おうみ）　岩間寺　（いわまでら）」

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; 35.8 x 23.6 cm (14 1/8 x 9 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1148

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), #29-12

DescriptionThe story of the poet Bashô, also called Tôsei (Bashô okina tôsei).
芭蕉翁桃青

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

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

Inscriptions第十二番　近江岩間寺

みなかみは
いづくなるらん岩間寺
きしうつ波かまつ風の音

本尊　千手観音
開基　泰澄大師

芭蕉翁桃青

芭蕉翁常に観音経を信じ／ことに此岩間寺の薩たを念じて閑素幽棲の風流を志せしかば／終にその霊験を蒙りて末代に名を天下にかがやかせり／紫式部は此辺の石山寺の観音にこもりて持念し／源氏物語の秀著あり／芭蕉翁は／この山つづき国分山に三年の間住みて／幻住庵の記をかかれ／一夏九旬に法華二十八品を一石に一字づつ書んと思いて／里の童たちに小石を拾はせ／携へ来るものには／その賃にとて菓子なぞを与へけるゆへ／童たちは翁を慕ひあつまりて／既にその功達し／其記文のおくによむ／「先たのむ椎の木もあり夏木立」ばせを

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)