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Hinazura of Chōjiya from the series Beauties as the Seven Komachi

c. 1793–97

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川 豊国

(Japanese, 1769–1825)
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium
Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Measurements
Sheet: 37.9 x 25.4 cm (14 15/16 x 10 in.)
Credit Line
The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.355
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The courtesan seated on the floor holds a tobacco pipe and pouch.

Description

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.
A vertically oriented woodblock print depicts Hinazura, a woman with light skin tone, sitting on the right and facing left. She wears a black kimono patterned with maple leaves and holds a long-handled fan. To her left, a caged falcon sits on a stand housing stacked books and brushes. Japanese calligraphy appears in the upper left, center right, and within a fan-shaped cartouche at the top right.

Hinazura of Chōjiya from the series Beauties as the Seven Komachi

c. 1793–97

Utagawa Toyokuni

(Japanese, 1769–1825)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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