Art Institute of Chicago
The Six Immortals of Poetry, Abbreviated
Chokosai EishoLinkedCulture matchlcp-78b70eb3abed
- Date
- c. 1795
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban triptych
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 87442
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In this triptych print, the artist expressed appreciation for fine poems of the past by associating them with the three current leading, and possibly most beautiful, courtesans in the Yoshiwara pleasure district. Each of the three panels shows a courtesan with her male guest. In the background are six poems, one by each Immortal. These are inscribed over the style of decorative pattern found on cards used for writing poems. At the right is Narihira’s most famous love poem. A work by Ono no Komachi is on the left.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- S. Nakaide; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, May 20, 1935.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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