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Onraku-ji at Mount Shofû in Ogasaka, No. 23 of the Chichibu Pilgrimage Route (Chichibu junrei nijûsanban Ogasaka Shofûsan Onraku-ji), from the series Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)


「観音霊験記 秩父巡礼 二十三番 小鹿坂(をがさか) 松風山(しょうふうざん) 音楽寺(おんがくじ)」
Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
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; 34.9 x 24.3 cm (13 3/4 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42640
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné C's Ukiyo-e Museum, http://homepage2.nifty.com/ukiyo-e/index.html
DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1151, 11.42640

The story of Uchiyama Genzô, a retainer of Hatakeyama Motokuni (Hatakeyama Motokuni no kerai Uchiyama Genzô).
畠山基国の家来内山源蔵
Signed Kunisada ga, in toshidama cartouche (below); Hiroshige ga (above)
国貞画(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秩父順礼第廿三番 小鹿坂 松風山音楽寺

おんがくのミこゑなりけりをが坂の
 しらべにかよふ峯のまつ風

奉額 松は琴浪はつゞみよ舞ふ小蝶

畠山基国の家来内山源蔵

当山ハ慈覚大師此処に堂宇を建給ふ時余多の/小男鹿来つて道の案内をせしゆへ小鹿坂といへり/誠に絶景の地にて霊験も又あまたあるなかに/畠山基国の家来(けらい)内山源蔵ハ観音をよく信じ/ける時に大内介義弘の討手を基国命ぜ/られけれバ源蔵も出陣の役にあたり武門の/面目とハいひながら七十にちかき老母に/離ることを深くなげきけれバ老母ハこれを/いさめていふやう此守仏ハ秩父音楽寺の/御影なりこれを懐中して母をおもふ/ときハ南無大慈大悲と唱へよと必ず勝利/あるべしと渡しけれバよろこびて兜のうちに/おさめ出陣せし処この守のおかげにや/危き矢さき剱先をのがれ終に/義弘敗軍に/および基国勝利/を得て凱陣のうへ/にて源蔵ハ功成名/とげて身を退き母/もろともに出家となつて/観音を供養せしに/なを霊験を/蒙れりとなり

万亭応賀誌

*(二代広重画)(二代国貞画)*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.