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Komachi of the Sekidera Temple

  • Details

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    Series
    Seven Fashionable Figures of Ono no Komachi
    Associated place
    Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Tōkyō (place of publication)
    Date
    c. 1805 - 1820
    Artist/maker
    Kikukawa Eizan (1787 - 1867) (designer)
    Ono no Komachi (c. AD 825 – c. 900) (author)
    Associated people
    Koyama Hangorō (active c. 1805 - 1820) (publisher)
    Ono no Komachi (c. AD 825 – c. 900) (subject)
    Material and technique
    nishiki-e (multi-block) woodblock print, printed with water-based vegetable pigments
    Dimensions
    mount 55.5 x 40.7 cm (height x width)
    print 37.7 x 25.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    paper
    Technique index
    colour woodcut
    Object type index
    print,
    mitate-e
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
    Accession no.
    EAX.4437

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 August-30 November 2005, Beauties of the Four Seasons, Mitsuko Watanabe, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 32 on p. 68, p. 62, illus. p. 69

Glossary (4)

mitate, mitate-e, nishiki-e, vegetable pigments

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • Beauties of the Four Seasons by Mitsuko Watanabe

    Beauties of the Four Seasons

    Here a woman, as a mitate of Sekidera-komachi, is standing and dressing her hair in front of a mirror, suggesting the passing years. She wears a thin casual kimono indicative of summer. Behind, in a cartouche, the now old Komachi who lives near the Sekidera (temple) is crossing a bridge holding an umbrella and a walking stick.

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