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Ono no Komachi Washing the Book
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信LinkedCulture matchlcp-c266ffe5d240
- Date
- Edo period (1615–1868), 1765/66
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; chuban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 20807
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This design originally appeared as part of the series The Seven Fashionable Aspects of Komachi, but here it was adapted for a pictorial calendar for the year 1766. The boy is about to pour water over the woman’s writing, much in the same way Ono no Komachi washed a scroll to remove text added by a rival in a poetry contest. The name of the year is written on the boy’s sash, the short months (with 29 days) appear on the letter, and the long months (with 30 days) are written on the woman’s sleeves.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Edward Colonna (1862–1948); sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, May 1907; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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