Portrait of Ono no Komachi
- Person
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賛者良純法親王
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- カセンエ（オノノコマチ）
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001276-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
- Creditline
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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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- Art
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- Wood Art Rectangle Handwriting Painting
The Anthology of Thirty-Six Poets (Jp. Sanju-Rokkasen) selected by Fujiwara-no-Kinto (996-1041) was a sought-after poetry book among the Heian court nobility. In the 12th century, toward the end of the Heian Era, the kasen-e, or portraits of the thirty-six immortal poets, came into being. The most famous collection was called the Satake Family Version of Illustrated Handscrolls of the Thirty-Six Poets. Due to adoration for the distinguished poets or antiquity, bound shikishi (decorated squares of paper) books were produced more often than handscroll editions. In this edition, both the representative poem and the portrait of one of the thirty-six poets sometimes appear on one shikishi, but at other times they are written and printed on two facing shikishi sheets, which can be spread open. Whichever editing style was adopted, only the most famous painters of the era were commissioned to draw the portraits. Likewise, outstanding calligraphers of the time were asked to hand-copy the poems. The exhibit had been severed from an originally bound shikishi book of a poem and portrait on facing pages and then (made into a kakemono, a hanging decoration for the tokonoma alcove. The portrait shows Lady Ono-no-Komachi, the famous poetess of the early Heian Period. She is immortalized as one of the Six Saintly Poets and also as one of the Thirty-Six Poets. Lady Komachi is depicted sitting on raised tatami mats in flowering cloaks, carrying a fan made of thin, flat sheets of cypress wood pieced together. The artist’s stamp at the bottom right reads “Tokaku.” Although the portrait resembles a work by an Unkoku school painter who preserved the Sesshu style, we have no information about the painter. The poem was written by Priestly Prince Ryojun (1603-1669), who was the eighth prince of Emperor GoYozei (1571-1617). The prince was dedicated to Japanese poetry and was a prolific calligrapher who left behind a large collection of letters, tanzaku strips of poems, shikishi decorated squares with poems and the like. His writing style was that of the GoKashiwabara School, patterned after the emperor of that name. The slightly flowery style, especially of the kana syllabary, shows his training in the classical Jodai-yo style of calligraphy.
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