Parrot Komachi, from the series The Fashionable Seven Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi)

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Parrot Komachi, from the series The Fashionable Seven Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi)

Chobunsai EishiLinkedCulture matchlcp-6c6a6222ee11

Date
c. 1788
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Culture
Japan
Department
Arts of Asia
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
87429

The stooped figure of an elderly Ono no Komachi stands in the distance behind two fashionable young women and a child. In this scene, one of the women holds a piece of paper with a poem written on it, a reference to a specific episode in Komachi’s life. After receiving a poem from the emperor, she replied by returning the same poem with only one character changed. Komachi’s response was comparable to that of a parrot, hence the name of the story, “Parrot Komachi."

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Clarence Buckingham Collection
Provenance
Carl Schraubstadter (1862–1947), New York. Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 12, 1935.

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