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Ono no Komachi Visiting Kiyomizu Temple, from the series The Fashionable Seven Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi)
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- Date
- Edo period (1615–1868), about 1788
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 86939
In this print, two women and a young boy have gone to Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto to view the cherry blossoms. The boy ties a slip of paper with a poem on it onto one of the trees. This image refers to a myth from Ono no Komachi’s life, in which a young woman visiting Kiyomizu Temple overhears a monk’s prayers for Komachi and leads him to the elderly poet’s house. The print’s pale coloring—confined to green, pink, yellow, and shades of gray—gives the scene a soft, lyrical quality.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Yamanaka & Company; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, Dec. 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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