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Ono no Komachi by the Waterfall (Shimizu), from the series The Seven Fashionable Aspects of Komachi (Furyu yatsushi nana Komachi)
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信LinkedCulture matchlcp-c266ffe5d240
- Date
- Edo period (1615–1868), 1751/64
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hosoban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 20861
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In this print, two fashionably dressed young women view cherry blossoms at the peak of their season at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto. This scene is based on a legend about a young Ono no Komachi (also the subject of a Nō play) in which she would frequent the temple, possibly to meet up with a man. At the upper right is a picture of Kiyomizu Temple, with its three waterfalls, which can still be seen today. The poem reads: Despite all I do It is of no avail— My body has grown old; While the waterfall remains Unchanged in its appearance. (Translation by Louise Virgin)
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- John Henry Wrenn (1841–1911), Chicago; by descent to his son, Harold Brent Wrenn (1878–1938), Chicago; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, Dec. 1917; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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