Kunisada - Kannon Reikenki - No. 20

Kunisada and Hiroshige II   The story of Saint Gensan, Founder of the Temple: Stories of the Kan'non temples of western provinces "Kannon Reigen Ki" (The Stories of the Miracles by the Goddess Kannon) 観音霊験記 Kannon Pilgrimage Zempoji Temple, Yamashiro Province. A villager saved a baby, who was abandoned in a mountain, from a pack of wolves. The baby later became the high priest, Gensan Shonin. Inscription: Senju Kannon Kaisan Gensakujin Kaisan Gensakujin The superior is a person from Inshu. Of these, if my mother is tormented / I will throw it away in the mountains as an unscrupulous child / But neither birds nor beasts will harm this / I will not die even if I swallow three days' milk / I will pick up the villagers and raise them / When I was fifteen years old, I climbed Mt. Ei and shaved my hair / I heard my mother's death and came to Mt. The lord of this mountain, Achizakagami / Revealed as a hired husband / Also, tens of thousands of Inokas came and crushed the rock cave / The une