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Nichiren Praying for Rain at Ryôzengasaki in Kamakura in 1271 (Bun'ei hachi Kamakura Ryôzengasaki ame inoru), from the series Sketches of the Life of Nichiren (Kôso goichidai ryakuzu)


「高祖御一代略図 文永八鎌倉霊山ヶ崎雨祈」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1830–35 (Tenpô 1–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.7 x 37 cm (10 1/8 x 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.1978
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Ukiyoeshitachi no shinbutsu (1999), #19; Schaap, Heroes and Ghosts (1998), #206; Suzuki et al., Utagawa Kuniyoshi ten (1996), #s 94, 95; Baskett, Footprints of the Buddha (1980), #51; Robinson, Kuniyoshi (1961), pl. 22
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks No censor's seal