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Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain
Isoda KoryusaiLinkedCulture matchlcp-e1286e4bc9aa
- Date
- Edo period (1615–1868), about 1771
- Medium
- Color woodblock print, hashira-e
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 23120
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In one legend about Ono no Komachi, the ninth-century poet summons rain by reciting an ode, thereby ending a long drought. In this print, an 18th-century woman in modified court dress accomplishes the same feat by reading the poem in her hand, possibly a love letter.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Samuel Tuke (1855–1938), London; sold, Sotheby's, London, Apr. 3–7, 1911, to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago; 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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