About this artwork
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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Status
- On View, Gallery 107
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Department
- Arts of Asia
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Artist
- Chôbunsai Eishi
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Title
- Ono no Komachi Visiting Kiyomizu Temple, from the series The Fashionable Seven Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi)
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Place
- Japan (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1781–1791
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Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
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Dimensions
- 38.7 × 25.4 cm (15 1/4 × 10 in.)
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Credit Line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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Reference Number
- 1925.3100
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/86939/manifest.json
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