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Your galleryCasting a Mantra on the Waves at Kakuta on His Exile to Sado Island (Sashu rukei Kakuta nami daimoku), from the series "Concise Illustrated Biography of the Great Priest [Nichiren] (Koso go ichidai ryakuzu)"
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Casting a Mantra on the Waves at Kakuta on His Exile to Sado Island (Sashu rukei Kakuta nami daimoku), from the series "Concise Illustrated Biography of the Great Priest [Nichiren] (Koso go ichidai ryakuzu)", c. 1830/35. Color woodblock print; oban.
Color woodblock print; oban · 23.4 × 36.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Casting a Mantra on the Waves at Kakuta on His Exile to Sado Island (Sashu rukei Kakuta nami daimoku), from the series "Concise Illustrated Biography of the Great Priest [Nichiren] (Koso go ichidai ryakuzu)"
- Artist
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi Japanese, 1797-1861
- Date
- c. 1830/35
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 23.4 × 36.8 cm (9 3/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Michener
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.