About This Print
The original 1925 edition and re-printed 1946 edition print of the seventh 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:
Kyōto-shi Reiyū-zan Kōdō Gyōgan-ji 京都市 霊麀山 革堂行願寺 (temple 19, 十九)
Yamashiro no kuni Nishi-yama Yoshimine-dera 山城國 西山 善峰寺 (temple 20, 二十)
Tamba no kuni Bodai-zan Anao-ji 丹波國 菩提山 穴太寺 (temple 21, 二十一).
Each temple name in the below table is linked to its corresponding print.
* 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 Gyōgan-ji 革堂行願寺 (Kōdō), temple 19 Looking at this flower
My wish now
Is that the thousand flowers
In Kodo's garden
Will bloom花を見て いまは望みも 革堂の 庭の千草も 盛りなるらん Yoshimine-dera 善峰寺, temple 20 Passing through the fields
On a mountain path
Heading towards rainy skies
From Yoshimine
The evening showers clear野をもすぎ 山路にむかふ 雨の空 善峯よりも 晴るる夕立 Anao-ji 穴太寺, temple 21 In the next world
I may be born again
To more human suffering
So I pray
With ten voice, one voiceかかる世に 生まれあふ身の あな憂やと 思はで頼め 十声一声
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 Appendix Sheets - 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
#2325, #2413.53 Title or Description Appendix 7 (temples 19, 20 and 21)
附録 七
note: the title shown left appears only on the 1925 edition 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 IHL Cat. #2413.53: 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]
IHL Cat. #2325: January 18, 1946 昭和二十一年一月十八日発行 [Individual prints in the 1946 release are not dated. This date taken from a 1946 album colophon.] 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
Below publisher's seal reading 文淵堂版 Bun'endō han appears in the right margin only on 1925 edition.
Carver not applicable Printer 1925 release: 松本兄弟堂, a company founded in Osaka by Matsumoto Kisaburō 松本喜三郎 in 1923
1946 release: unknown Impression IHL Cat. #2413.53: excellent
IHL Cat. #2325: excellent Colors IHL Cat. #2413.53: excellent
IHL Cat. #2325: excellent Condition IHL Cat. #2413.53: good - light foxing; tattered margin edges
IHL Cat. #2325: excellent - light vertical fold Genre shin hanga; shasei kikō (sketch-tour) Miscellaneous
Format horizontal oban
H x W Paper
IHL Cat. #2413.53: 10 1/16 x 15 3/16 in. (25.6 x 38.6 cm)
IHL Cat. #2325: 9 5/8 x 13 7/8 in. (24.4 x 35.2 cm)
H x W Image
IHL Cat. #2413.53: 8 9/16 x 11 1/2 in. (21.7 x 29.2 cm) (area within red border)
IHL Cat. #2325: 8 9/16 x 11 7/16 in. (21.7 x 29.1 cm) (area within black 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 | #2325, #2413.53 |
| Title or Description | Appendix 7 (temples 19, 20 and 21) 附録 七 note: the title shown left appears only on the 1925 edition |
| 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 | IHL Cat. #2413.53: 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] IHL Cat. #2325: January 18, 1946 昭和二十一年一月十八日発行 [Individual prints in the 1946 release are not dated. This date taken from a 1946 album colophon.] |
| 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 Below publisher's seal reading 文淵堂版 Bun'endō han appears in the right margin only on 1925 edition. |
| Carver | not applicable |
| Printer | 1925 release: 松本兄弟堂, a company founded in Osaka by Matsumoto Kisaburō 松本喜三郎 in 1923 1946 release: unknown |
| Impression | IHL Cat. #2413.53: excellent IHL Cat. #2325: excellent |
| Colors | IHL Cat. #2413.53: excellent IHL Cat. #2325: excellent |
| Condition | IHL Cat. #2413.53: good - light foxing; tattered margin edges IHL Cat. #2325: excellent - light vertical fold |
| Genre | shin hanga; shasei kikō (sketch-tour) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | horizontal oban |
| H x W Paper | IHL Cat. #2413.53: 10 1/16 x 15 3/16 in. (25.6 x 38.6 cm) IHL Cat. #2325: 9 5/8 x 13 7/8 in. (24.4 x 35.2 cm) |
| H x W Image | IHL Cat. #2413.53: 8 9/16 x 11 1/2 in. (21.7 x 29.2 cm) (area within red border) IHL Cat. #2325: 8 9/16 x 11 7/16 in. (21.7 x 29.1 cm) (area within black 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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