Kunisada - Chomei-ji in Omi Province - No. 31

Kunisada and Hiroshige II  

The story of Saint Gensan, Founder of the Temple: Stories of the Kan'non temples of western provinces "Kannon Reigen Ki" (The Stories of the Miracles by the Goddess Kannon) 観音霊験記

Chômei-ji in Ômi Province, No. 31 of the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei sanjûichiban Ômi Chômei-ji), from the series Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)

"Kannon Pilgrimage Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage Thirty Ichiban Omi Chomeiji Temple"

INSCRIPTIONS

Fujijuro is a person from Echizen / Lost his parents and lost his household goods Selling off the road Gin and Nashi / Michi going up to the capital I met a thief at the village of Shiga in Eshu / Peeling off clothes / Disposal in the water / There is a guardian deity of this Chomeiji temple in my underwear / Mysterious If it shines / It is pulled up by the fisherman's night net and revived. Build a temple / enshrine a guardian who saves his life / become a spiritual test of grace / Kannon of the mountain protects blisters / he believes that there is no further injury

Condition: Very good, not backed, borders as shown.

Publisher: Yamadaya Shôjirô 

Date: 1858