Mount Haruna in Kozuke Province

Kikukawa Eizan • 1830

Mount Haruna in Kozuke Province, 1830

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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.