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Mount Haruna in Kozuke Province
Kikukawa Eizanc. 1830s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Mount Haruna in Kozuke Province
- Creator: Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787-1867)
- Date Created: c. 1830s
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 26.1 x 37.8 cm (10 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.)
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.35
- Medium: color woodblock print
- Inscriptions: Signature: Yeizan fude
- Fun Fact: The Buddhist sculptures in the upper left corner of this print represent Fudo Myoo flanked by two child deities called Seitaka and Kongara.
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Ralph King
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Accession Number: 1943.35
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