Jôraku-ji on Mount Nanseki in Sakakôri, No. 11 of the Chichibu Pilgrimage Route (Chichibu junrei jûichiban Sakakôri Nansekizan Jôraku-ji), from the series Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)

「観音霊験記　秩父巡礼　十一番　坂氷（さかこうり）　南石山（なんせきざん）　常楽寺（じょうらくじ）」

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), 4th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 x 25.5 cm (14 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1158

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné C's Ukiyo-e Museum, http://homepage2.nifty.com/ukiyo-e/index.html

DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1158, 11.42628

The story of Jûji Monkai.
住持門海

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

Marks Censor's seal: Goat 4 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：未四改
彫師：なし

Inscriptions秩父順礼第十一番　坂氷　南石山常楽寺

罪とがもきえよといのる坂氷
　旭はさゝでゆふひかゞやく

奉額　臘八や消して火燵も雪の山

住持門海

門海は智徳勝れたる聖にて当山に／二王門を建立せしけるが普請なかばに／邪気に犯されて臥けるが薬服も／はかばかしく験もなけれバ本尊に／快気を祈念しけるがその夜夢中に／貴僧来りて吾よく汝が邪気を／治さしめんと宣へバ／ふしぎと其坐へ／金剛神あら／ハれ出て門海の／手を採て／引立る／と思へバ／夢覚／ぬその／翌日より／忽ち平愈しけれバ本尊を／いよいよ信心しけるに猶数多の霊験を蒙り／長寿を得たること偏に当寺の利益ふしぎといふもおろか也

万亭応賀誌

＊（二代広重画）（三代豊国画）＊安政六年未四月（1859）

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)