Nachi no taki no Mongaku Shōnin (Mongaku Shōnin enacting his penance in Nachi Waterfall)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Nachi no taki no Mongaku Shōnin (Mongaku Shōnin enacting his penance in Nachi Waterfall), probably 1851, color woodblock print with embossing on paper; ōban nishiki-e; vertical triptych, Gift of Ruth and Jacob Kainen, public domain, 2000.37a-c
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- Title
Nachi no taki no Mongaku Shōnin (Mongaku Shōnin enacting his penance in Nachi Waterfall)
- Related Titles
original language; descriptive: 那智の滝の文覚上人
translated; descriptive: Mongaku Shōnin Enacting his Penance in Nachi Waterfall
transliterated; descriptive: Nachi no taki no Mongaku Shōnin
- Artist
- Related People
publisher: Sumiyoshiya Masagorō (Japanese, active ca. 1847-1853)
- Date
probably 1851
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
color woodblock print with embossing on paper; ōban nishiki-e; vertical triptych
- Catalogue Raisonné
Graybill 2011, no. 103
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 41 5/16 in x 9 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
publisher's mark: 吉, printed in black ink within rectagular cartouche, lower right of bottom sheet; lower left of top sheet Transliteration (Translation): Yoshi ([seal of the publisher Sumiyoshiya Masagorō 住吉屋政五郎]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo publisher, firm Hōraidō 鳳来堂 active ca. 1847-53.
censor's mark: 衣笠, printed in black relief within circular cartouche, lower right of bottom and center sheets; lower left of top sheet Transliteration (Translation): Kinugasa ([seal of the censor Kinugasa Fusajirō 衣笠房次郎]) Language: Japanese
censor's mark: 村田, printed in black relief within circular cartouche, lower right of bottom and center sheets; lower left of top sheet Transliteration (Translation): Murata ([seal of the censor Murata Sahei 村田佐兵衛]) Language: Japanese Description: Seals of government censors (nanushi) Murata and Kinugasa appear together on prints between 1851-1852.
artist's seal: [paulownia crest], printed in red intaglio within rectangular cartouche; printed in red relief within rectangular cartouche, lower right of bottom and center sheets; lower left of top sheet Translation: [seal of the artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳]
signature: 一勇斎國芳画, printed in black ink within a gourd-shaped cartouche on red ground, lower right of bottom and center sheets; lower left of top sheet Transliteration (Translation): Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga (picture [by] Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi) Language: Japanese
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
Japanese Traditional Prints
- Object Type
relief print
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
Gift of Ruth and Jacob Kainen
- Accession Number
2000.37a-c
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- Exhibitions
2011 The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum Portland Art Museum
