Cleveland Museum of Art

Hinazura of Chōjiya from the series Beauties as the Seven Komachi

Utagawa ToyokuniLinkedCulture matchlcp-7fb54014fdbe

Date: c. 1793–97
Medium: Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department: Japanese Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 152538

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A woman in traditional Japanese attire sits beside a cage containing a bird, holding a fan.

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Seven plays based on legends from the life of 9th-century poet Ono no Komachi served as the source for this print series. Hinazura looks at a caged bird, symbolizing the play The Parrot , in which Komachi responds to a poem sent to her by the Emperor Yozei with a poem with just one syllable changed. The courtesan seated on the floor holds a tobacco pipe and pouch.

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Credit line: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
Provenance: ?–1985: The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1985–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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