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Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信LinkedCulture matchlcp-c266ffe5d240
- Date
- Edo period (1615–1868), 1770
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 21062
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In this image, a woman who is meant to represent poet Ono no Komachi is about to set a toy ship in the water. Behind her, an attendant holds up an umbrella to protect her from the rain. The poem above is a play on two names for Japan: There is indeed reason to have bright sunlight here in the Land of the Rising Sun, Yet why is it also called “Under Heaven (Rain)?” (Translation by Kenji Toda) (The Japanese words for heaven and rain are homonyms.)
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Yamanaka & Company; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Dec. 1906; 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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