Ch?meiji Temple (Ch?meiji), from the series Miracles of Kannon Utagawa Hiroshige II ??????? Japanese Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) ????(??????) Japanese 1859 Ch?meiji Temple, situated on a hill overlooking Lake Biwa just east of Kyoto, and a popular destination on the Kannon pilgrimage route, is pictorialized in the upper half of this woodblock print by Hiroshige II. The subtitle of the print states that Ch?meiji is the thirty-first stop on the Kannon Pilgrimage of the Western Provinces (Saikoku junrei). The main hall that enshrines the Sh? Kannon statue and the five-story pagoda, still stan
Ch?meiji Temple (Ch?meiji), from the series Miracles of Kannon Utagawa Hiroshige II ??????? Japanese Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) ????(??????) Japanese 1859 Ch?meiji Temple, situated on a hill overlooking Lake Biwa just east of Kyoto, and a popular destination on the Kannon pilgrimage route, is pictorialized in the upper half of this woodblock print by Hiroshige II. The subtitle of the print states that Ch?meiji is the thirty-first stop on the Kannon Pilgrimage of the Western Provinces (Saikoku junrei). The main hall that enshrines the Sh? Kannon statue and the five-story pagoda, still standing, are shown in the panoramic , designed by Kunisada, is a depiction of the apocryphal episode from the temple history based on an episode in the Illustrated Teachings of the Kannon Sutra in Japanese (Kannon-ky? wakun-zue), by Mantei Oga—abridged in the accompanying text here. It shows fishermen recovering the body of Sahara T?j?r? ?????, who had committed suicide because he could not pay off family debts. But he was found and saved by fisherman who saw his drifting body in the water of Lake Biwa, near the temple. The bodhisattva Kannon had taken mercy on him and revived him, because of the deep faith in Buddhism previously held by his parents when they were still alive. To show his appreciation, T?j?r? became a pupil of a monk from Ch?meiji and commissioned a statue of Kannon in his , The Met owns a rare example of Ch?meiji pilgrimage mandala, created to raise funds for its rebuilding after the entire temple complex was leveled by fire in 1516 during warfare that affected the whole Kyoto area (). View more. Ch?meiji Temple (Ch?meiji), from the series Miracles of Kannon. Utagawa Hiroshige II ??????? (Japanese, 1826–1869) (upper). Japan. 1859. Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615–1868). Prints
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