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Komachi at Sotoba
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Details
- Series
- Seven Fashionable Figures of Ono no Komachi
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1805 - 1820
- Artist/maker
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Kikukawa Eizan (1787 - 1867) (designer)Ono no Komachi (c. AD 825 – c. 900) (author)
- Associated people
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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
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mount 55.6 x 40.4 cm (height x width)
print 37.7 x 25.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
- Accession no.
- EAX.4439
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 August-30 November 2005, Beauties of the Four Seasons, Mitsuko Watanabe, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 33 on p. 70, p. 62, illus. p. 71
Glossary (4)
mitate, mitate-e, nishiki-e, vegetable pigments
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mitate
Mitate, or riddle, is a form of visual and literary parody on a classical theme. It required prior knowledge in order to decipher it.
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mitate-e
Mitate-e, or riddle, is a form of visual and literary parody on a classical theme. It required prior knowledge in order to decipher it.
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nishiki-e
Nishiki-e literally means 'brocade pictures' and refers to multi-coloured woodblock prints.
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vegetable pigments
Vegetable pigments were used to create coloured dyes for Japanese prints, paintings, and textiles. These pigments often faded over time due to the chemical reactions they underwent.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Beauties of the Four Seasons
HERE A WOMAN, as a mitate of Sotoba-Komachi, is in black and brown holding up her hand to her hair. In a cartouche, the old Komachi, with a staff in her hand and wearing a hachimaki (headband) is sitting at the foot of a cherry tree overlooking an expanse of water in a place called Sotoba, where she had been rebuked by a priest for sitting.
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