Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信
Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770
Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain
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Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信
Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770Edo period (1615–1868), 1766
Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain
Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信 Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770 →Japanese (culture or style)woodblock printprint
Date
Edo period (1615–1868), 1766
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban
Dimensions
28.9 × 20.7 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Clarence Buckingham Collection
As in the print nearby, Suzuki Harunobu also adapted this design from the earlier series The Seven Fashionable Aspects of Komachi. This version, a pictorial calendar for the year 1766, depicts two girls at a riverbank. In the banner at the upper right is an umbrella and two slips of paper used to write poems. These objects refer to the story of Ono no Komachi praying for rain. Ordered by an emperor to recite a poem about rain to end a drought, Komachi did so, and legend has it that the heavens opened up and it began to pour.
Also notable
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Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿 Japanese, c.1753-1806
Hamamatsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
