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Object Type: print
Museum number: 2008,3037.14748
Title: Object: Okute 大久手 (Okute Station); Series: Kisokaidō rokujūkyū-tsugi no uchi 木曽街道六十九次之内 (The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō)
Description: Woodblock print, oban tate-e. The old woman of the Hitotsuya inn holding a knife, struggles with her daughter; an apparition of the thousand armed Kannon in the background (Inset: a wide road leading to a mountain at sunset). No. 48 in series.
Producer name: Print artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳; Published by: Yawataya Sakujiro; Block cut by: Hori Takichi 彫多吉
Cultures/periods: Edo Period
Production date: 1852 (7th month)
Production place: Published in: Edo (historic)
Materials: paper
Technique: woodblock
Dimensions: Height: 36.40 centimetres; Width: 24.60 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See:- Robinson 1982, S74 no. 49; Thompson 2009, no. 48
Location: Not on display
Subjects: bijin; mythical figure/creature; deity
Associated names: Representation of: Avalokiteśvara/Guanyin/Kannon
Associated places: Named in inscription: Kisokaido (historic); Named in inscription: Okute
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Donated by: American Friends of the British Museum
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Prof Arthur R Miller
Acquisition date: 2008
Department: Asia
Registration number: 2008,3037.14748
Additional IDs: Previous owner/ex-collection number: 14748 (Miller Collection number)

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