Kannon-in at Jukutsusan, No. 31 of the Chichibu Pilgrimage Route (Chichibu junrei sanjûichiban Chichibu Jukutsusan Kannon-in), from the series Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)

「観音霊験記　秩父巡礼　三十一番　鷲屈山（じゅくつさん）　観音寺（かんのんじ）」

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), 5th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 34.8 x 24.2 cm (13 11/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.42648

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

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

DescriptionThe story of Honda Jirô Chikatsune, a Retainer (Shin) of Chichibu Shigetada.
秩父重忠臣　本多次郎親常

Signed Kunisada ga, in toshidama cartouche (below); Hiroshige ga (above)
国貞画(年玉枠)、広重画

Marks Censor's seal: Goat 5 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：未五改
彫師：なし

Inscriptions秩父順礼第三拾一番　鷲屈山観音院

みやま路をかきわけ尋ねゆきミれバ
　わしのいわ屋にひゞく滝つせ

奉額　木からしや仏を囲ふ屏風岩

秩父重忠臣本多次郎親常

秩父の重忠／霊夢の告によつて／当山に田獵をせしに／遥の梢に鷲の巣に／篭れるを見つけて／親常に命じて／射さしめしに其／矢一本としてあだ矢／なく当るといへどもミな／はね反るがゆへ重忠ふしぎに／思ひてその巣を取おろさせて／見けれバ巣のうちに聖観音の／尊像れいれいとして在せしかバ霊夢を／感得して郷民にこれを拝さすれバ古へ／当山に寺院これありて行基の刻せし／観音の霊像ありしが承平五年相馬の／将門の兵乱に国中の神社仏閣／廃壊に及びしと古老の／物語これあれバあら有／がたやふしぎや是こそその／尊像にましませりといふをもて重忠／いよいよ信じて急ぎ御堂を建立してより重忠の／一門残らず帰依しけれバ其霊験また鏡にむかふが／如くなりしとぞ当山の奥の院に重忠の／馬繋親常の矢の跡なぞといふ／旧跡あげてかぞへがたし

万亭応賀誌

＊（二代広重画）（二代国貞画）＊安政六年未五月（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.