Hinazura of Chōjiya from the series Beauties as the Seven Komachi
Utagawa Toyokuni
1793–1797
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.9 x 25.4 cm (14 15/16 x 10 in.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
About
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.
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