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; 34.8 x 24.3 cm (13 11/16 x 9 9/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.42628

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)、広重画

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 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.