Nissaka: The Night-Weeping Stone at Sayo no Nakayama, from the series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō
c. 1848–50
- Medium
- Color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- 22 × 34.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-190227
This print is an image of a mountain pass in Nissaka, one of the stops along the Tōkaidō, a road running from Kyoto to Edo (present-day Tokyo). This scene alludes to a legend in which bandits murdered a pregnant woman on that stretch of road, and her blood fell upon a stone. Shown in the foreground, the stone is said to contain the woman’s spirit, and so it weeps each night. In some versions of the story, the stone’s cry alerts a passing monk (really the disguised bodhisattva Kannon) to the presence of her infant, who survived the attack. The monk takes the child from the deceased mother’s bo…
Provenance
Kelvin Smith, 1985.323
Registry history
- c. 1848–50 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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