Kunisada - Kannon Reikenki - No. 33

Kunisada and Hiroshige II  

The story of Ôkura Nobumitsu. Gold Merchant Nobumitsu Okura. 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 Tanigumi Temple, Mino Province, 

Inscription:

Mino Kuniya Kegonji Temple Put the wishes of the Yorozu world here. The water is from the moss. Nyorai Kaiki Seitoku Taishi Gold Merchant Okura Nobumitsu Nobumitsu is a person from Oku / Every year he visits Kumano every time he goes to Kyoraku. If / Okumura Nagai's Bunshu / Turn into a child and make an eleven-sided statue with the Enoki tree of the sacred tree Take it to Kogo / On the way, the statue of Buddhist image becomes heavier at the Sho (Kegonji Temple) in Mino Province. Seshiba / Sincerely renewed in the spiritual test days / Becoming the 33rd petition place / Bonsai country pilgrimage reached Kumano on March 15th of the first year of Toku, the chief priest of Hanayama / June Sakuhi came to this valley Tamafu / Seventy-five days in the meantime / The merit of the pilgrimage to the beginning of the pilgrimage is vast. Ken Ana

Condition: Very good, not backed.

Publisher: Yamadaya Shôjirô 

Date: 1858

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/190551