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Ono no Komachi at Seki Temple (Seki), from the series The Seven Fashionable Aspects of Komachi (Furyu yatsushi nana Komachi)
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信
- Date
- Edo period (1615–1868), 1751/64
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hosoban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
In the story of Ono no Komachi at Seki Temple (also the subject of a popular Nō play), a monk and a young boy visit an old woman who has a talent for poetry. When the woman utters a verse by Komachi, the monk realizes that she is Komachi herself. The poet and the boy then dance together. In this print, a young mother and her child stand in for Komachi and the boy. In the banner above them is a famous poem by Komachi: I that am lonely, Like a reed root-cut Should a stream entice me, Would go, I think. (Translation by Arthur Waley)
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