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Ono no Komachi Washing the Copybook
Torii Kiyomitsu ILinkedCulture matchlcp-3de1d8be3274
- Date
- Edo period (1615–1868), 1764
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hosoban, mizu-e
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 19930
This print refers to the story in which poet Ono no Komachi washes a copy of an ancient text in order to disrupt a rival’s efforts to defame her. The work is a color print that does not use black ink for the outlines, also known as a water picture or a mizu-e. Mizu-e were particularly popular in Japan in the 1760s. This print was once in the private collection of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who sold it to Art Institute benefactor Kate Buckingham in 1915. The poem in the banner reads: No one sows them— From what seed are they? The floating grasses Flourishing profusely Amid the rippling waves. (Translated by Felice Fischer)
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959); sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, Feb. 1915; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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