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A young Japanese woman in a kimono stands near a railing of an outdoor platform above water in spring season.

The woman wears a decorative kimono of many layers flowing to the floor splayed out but covering her feet. She arches her back slightly, leaning right, her head and neck turned to the right. Her other hand is out of the kimono and holding a long, bended piece of paper with writing on it. Part of an old tree trunk is suggested on the right, with white blooming flowers above. Clusters of yellow water irises emerge from the water, their leaves arching open, as if repeating the woman’s pose. A building exterior is on left, Japanese text written across top.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.2634
People
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, Japanese (1725-1770)
Title
Ono no Komachi from the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1767-1768 (Meiwa 4-5)
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Tōkyō
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/206352

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Technique
Woodblock print
Dimensions
Chūban: H. 29.0 cm x W. 21.2 cm (11 7/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Harunobu ga

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.2634
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Narazaki Muneshige, Ukiyo-e shuka [Collection of the Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints in Museums] Volume 8: Foggu Bijutsukan [Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University], Neruson Bijutsukan [Nelson Atkins Museum]..., Shogaku-kan (Tokyo, Japan, 1980 [Showa 55]), Color Plate 019; pp. 46-47

Exhibition History

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