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The Poetess Ono no Komachi
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信LinkedCulture matchlcp-c266ffe5d240
- Date
- Edo period (1615–1868), 1767/68
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; chuban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 20825
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Here poet Ono no Komachi stands against a blank background, dressed in the many-layered robes of a ninth-century court noblewoman. Her pose and attire come from an illustrated book by one of Suzuki Harunobu’s mentors, produced about 40 years before this print. The cherry blossoms on her outer robe are an appropriate motif; like the flowers, the poet’s legendary beauty was brilliant but fleeting.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853–1908), Boston; by descent to his wife, Sidney McCall (1865–1954; born Mary McNeill, also Mary McNeil Fenollosa), Boston, 1908; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, 1909; 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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