木喰Mokujiki Digital Archive
Works Catalogue

PO-1805-001

Nine-poem waka scroll (小栗山)

poem scroll1805
ID
PO-1805-001
Type
poem scroll
Subject
Nine waka poems on ascetic practice and pilgrimage hardships
Date
1805
Date Notes
Bunka 2 (1805); May 23; inscribed 文化二牛歳五月廿三日; age 88; held by Hiroi Kisuke (廣井喜助氏); 9 poems
Medium
Hanging scroll – ink on paper
Dimensions
H 62 cm
Location
Hiroi Kisuke collection (廣井喜助氏); Niigata-ken Furui-gun Higashiyama Village Ōguri-yama
City
Higashiyama (東山; Ōguri-yama)
Prefecture
Niigata
Country
Japan
Source
YanaguiPhotoBook1925
Notes
Entry 95 in Yanagi 1925 photo book (解説No 95). Scroll length 二尺五分 (62 cm); 9 waka poems. Poems document the hardships of mokujiki asceticism and pilgrimage (see Yanagi source for full texts). Written at Ōguri Kannon-dō location (see also SC-1802-001).