The Pine Tree of Priest Rennyo at Morinomiya

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Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A large twisted pine tree is covered in snow. It is surrounded by a fence and wrapped in sacred rope denoting its important status. A townsman and a monk stop to view the tree in the lower lefthand corner. Behind the large tree are the buildings of the surrounding temple grounds. also cover in a layer of white snow. As the title suggest this was called Priest Rennyo's pine tree because the famous 8th head priest of Hongan-ji temple reportedly hanged his clothes on this tree during his travels.
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Title
The Pine Tree of Priest Rennyo at Morinomiya
Creator(s)
Utagawa Yoshitaki/ 歌川 芳滝 (Signature: Yoshitaki ga/芳瀧画)
Issued
ca. 1860
Genre
woodcuts (prints)
Topical Subject(s)
Pine -- Japan -- Art ; Winter -- Japan -- Art ; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 ; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Continent
Asia
Country
Japan
Region
Tōkaidō
City
Ōsaka
Local Identifier
NE1325.U61_N3_0082
URI / Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100933
Related Work
Charles Nelson Spinks collection
Series
One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Series Description
A collabrative series by Utagawa Kunikazu, Utagawa Yoshitaki, and Nansuitei Yoshiyuki, published by Ishikawaya Wasuke (Ishiwa) in the early 1860s. This series is in Vertical Oban format. Similar to One Hundred Views series by artists like Hiroshige but instead of the capital city (Edo/Tokyo) the subject is Osaka, which was called Naniwa in the Tokugawa period.

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