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Hinazura of Chōjiya from the series Beauties as the Seven Komachi
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineHinazura of Chōjiya from the series Beauties as the Seven Komachi, c. 1793–97. Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769–1825). Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper; sheet: 37.9 x 25.4 cm (14 15/16 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith, 1985.355
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