Mount Haruna in Kozuke Province

Description

This print is the right-hand sheet from a triptych depicting a famous Buddhist pilgrimage site in what is now Gunma prefecture. The women in the foreground observe men undergoing ritual purification by standing under a sacred waterfall. The full composition showed eight women and a child traversing a bridge before a panorama of the religious site.

Provenance

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Mount Haruna in Kozuke Province

Kikukawa Eizan

c. 1830s

Accession Number

1943.35

Medium

color woodblock print

Dimensions

Sheet: 26.1 x 37.8 cm (10 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Ralph King