Mount Haruna in Kozuke Province (c. 1830s): Art, History and Details

Mount Haruna in Kozuke Province (c. 1830s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Mount Haruna in Kozuke Province
• Date: c. 1830s
• Creator attribution: Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Print
• Technique: color woodblock print
• Dimensions: Sheet: 26.1 x 37.8 cm (10 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1943.35

A detail from the museum

The Buddhist sculptures in the upper left corner of this print represent Fudo Myoo flanked by two child deities called Seitaka and Kongara.

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. Ralph King

View the collection record

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