Portrait of Kakinomoto no Hitomaro by Konoe Nobutada
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作者・賛者近衛信尹
- Date
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制作年 AD16
- Title
- コノエノブタダヒツカキノモトノヒトマロジガサン
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Ink on paper
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000611-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
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慶應義塾（センチュリー赤尾コレクション）
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- Classification
- Art
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- Font Art Handwriting Drawing Visual arts
This exhibit shows a portrait of Kakinomoto-no-Hitomaro. Both the ink painting and calligraphy were rendered by Konoe Nobutada (1565-1614). Hitomaro was venerated so much so that, from around the Heian Period (12th C.), it became customary to hang his portrait on tokonoma alcove at poetry parties. People wishing to master the art of waka composition and for success prayed to his image, the “patron saint of waka poetry.” Obviously, the exhibited portrait was used for such purposes. Usually, brightly-colored Yamatoe-style paintings were favored. The exhibit, however, shows an oversimplified pictogram-like representation of Hitomaro. You can see that the lines forming the cap, facial features and the shoulders of the hunting robe show the characters “kaki,” a part of Hitomaro’s surname. The right hand holding a brush looks like the character “moto.” The lines of the right and left feet form the characters “hito” and “maru” (not “maro” but similar in sound), thus cleverly spelling the name of the ancient poetic saint, while also showing his image. The poetic inscription at the top is attributed to Hitomaro in the Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poems (Kokin Wakashu), Volume 9.
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- Title (EN)
- Portrait of Kakinomoto no Hitomaro by Konoe Nobutada
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Quantity 1幅
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 軸頭：象牙
- Attachments
- 外箱（二重箱）、裂地製帙、勝川院極め添状、箱に覆裂、翻字2枚、墨書1枚
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