About This Print
The fifth of eleven appendices in the Picture Album of the Thirty-Three Pilgrimage Places of the Western Provinces portfolio, each providing information on three of the thirty-three temples that make up the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage. Each appendix sheet provides a sketch of each temple's honzon 本尊(enshrined principle image), its goeika 御詠歌 (a song/prayer recited by some pilgrims) and a haikai (comic linked verse) composed by the haiku poet Ishikura Suiyō 石倉翠葉 (1875-1938) who, along with the artist Akatsuka Chūichi 赤塚忠一 (1887-?), accompanied Nakazawa on his seventy-eight day pilgrimage to the thirty-three temples and surrounding sights beginning on December 11, 1923. The creator of the honzon sketches is unknown.
The three temples on this sheet (including their locales, using the old province names, and sangō 山号*) are:Ōmi no kuni Nagara-san Shōhō-ji Miidera 近江國 長等山 正法寺 三井寺 (temple 14, 十四)
Kyōto shi Ima kumano Kannon-ji 京都市 新熊野 観音寺 (temple 15, 十五)
* the name of a Buddhist temple's sacred mountain prefixed to the name of the temple. They are used both in the portfolio's table of contents and on each addendum sheet.
Temple Name and Number Goeika 御詠歌 Ishiyama-dera 石山寺, temple 13 Although my heart
Is little concerned
With the next life,
Kannon's vow is as heavy
As this Stone Mountain後の世を 願うこころは かろくとも ほとけの誓い おもき石山 Mii-dera 三井寺, temple 14 The moon,
Glittering between the waves
As the rippling sound
From the bell at Miidera
Shines over the lakeいで入るや 波間の月を 三井寺の 鐘のひびきに あくる湖 Ima kumano Kannon-ji 新熊野 観音寺, temple 15 I did not know
Imakumano had existed
Since ancient times-
Kannon's vow
Is ever renewed昔より 立つとも知らぬ 今熊野 ほとけの誓い あらたなりけり
Note: All goeika English translations taken from A Pilgrimage in Japan: The 33 Temples of Kannon, Joan D. Stamm, Mantra Books, 2018. Goeika in Japanese taken from the website of the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage Association https://www.saikoku33.gr.jp/
Comparison of Appendices - The Original 1925 Release and the 1946 Second Edition
As shown below, the original 1925 release is printed in red ink on the same paper used for the prints themselves. The 1946 release is printed in black ink on a thin translucent sheet of paper.
Print Details
IHL Catalog
#2371, #2413.51 Title or Description 
Appendix 5 (temples 13, 14 and 15)
附録 五 Series Picture Album of the Thirty-Three Pilgrimage Places of the Western Provinces
西国三十三所巡礼画巻 Saigoku sanjūsansho junrei gakan Artist unknown - sketches of honzon not credited. Principle artist for portfolio is Nakazawa Hiromitsu (1874-1964). Haikai by Ishikura Suiyō 石倉翠葉 (1875-1938) Signature not signed Seal of the artist not sealed Publication Date September 28, 1925 大正十四年九月十八日発行 [publishing date as given on the colophon for the 1925 album] Publisher 
文淵堂版 Bun'endō han
發行者 金尾種次郎 publisher Kanao Tanejirō
發兌元 金尾文淵堂 publishing house Kanao Bun'endō Carver not applicable Printer 松本兄弟堂, a company founded in Osaka by Matsumoto Kisaburō 松本喜三郎 in 1923
Impression IHL Cat. #2371: excellent
IHL Cat. #2413.51: excellent Colors IHL Cat. #2371: excellent
IHL Cat. #2413.51: excellent Condition IHL Cat. #2371:good - foxing and soiling; mark in upper right corner
IHL Cat. #2413.51: fair - foxing and discoloration; paper loss upper right margin; deep folds upper right, upper left, lower left margins; paper loss lower right margin Genre shin hanga; shasei kikō (sketch-tour) Miscellaneous
Format horizontal oban
H x W Paper
10 1/8 x 15 1/4 in. (25.7 x 38.7 cm)
H x W Image
8 9/16 x 11 1/2 in. (21.7 x 29.2 cm) (area with red border)
Literature Nakazawa Hiromitsu kenkyū: Hon karano kenshō, Hiromitsu Nakazawa, Mitsunobu Satō, et. al., Mitsui Kōkei, Tokyo, 2006, p. 46-48. Collections This Print
National Diet Library Call Number 寄別7-8-2-5; National Library Board, Singapore BRN:9854371 (entire 1946 album, no images shown); British Library System number: 017018582 (entire 1946 album, no images shown); Harvard Yenching Library HOLLIS number 990082993710203941 (1925 album)
| IHL Catalog | #2371, #2413.51 |
| Title or Description | 附録 五 |
| Series | Picture Album of the Thirty-Three Pilgrimage Places of the Western Provinces 西国三十三所巡礼画巻 Saigoku sanjūsansho junrei gakan |
| Artist | unknown - sketches of honzon not credited. Principle artist for portfolio is Nakazawa Hiromitsu (1874-1964). Haikai by Ishikura Suiyō 石倉翠葉 (1875-1938) |
| Signature | not signed |
| Seal of the artist | not sealed |
| Publication Date | September 28, 1925 大正十四年九月十八日発行 [publishing date as given on the colophon for the 1925 album] |
| Publisher | 發行者 金尾種次郎 publisher Kanao Tanejirō 發兌元 金尾文淵堂 publishing house Kanao Bun'endō |
| Carver | not applicable |
| Printer | 松本兄弟堂, a company founded in Osaka by Matsumoto Kisaburō 松本喜三郎 in 1923 |
| Impression | IHL Cat. #2371: excellent IHL Cat. #2413.51: excellent |
| Colors | IHL Cat. #2371: excellent IHL Cat. #2413.51: excellent |
| Condition | IHL Cat. #2371:good - foxing and soiling; mark in upper right corner IHL Cat. #2413.51: fair - foxing and discoloration; paper loss upper right margin; deep folds upper right, upper left, lower left margins; paper loss lower right margin |
| Genre | shin hanga; shasei kikō (sketch-tour) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | horizontal oban |
| H x W Paper | 10 1/8 x 15 1/4 in. (25.7 x 38.7 cm) |
| H x W Image | 8 9/16 x 11 1/2 in. (21.7 x 29.2 cm) (area with red border) |
| Literature | Nakazawa Hiromitsu kenkyū: Hon karano kenshō, Hiromitsu Nakazawa, Mitsunobu Satō, et. al., Mitsui Kōkei, Tokyo, 2006, p. 46-48. |
| Collections This Print | National Diet Library Call Number 寄別7-8-2-5; National Library Board, Singapore BRN:9854371 (entire 1946 album, no images shown); British Library System number: 017018582 (entire 1946 album, no images shown); Harvard Yenching Library HOLLIS number 990082993710203941 (1925 album) |
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