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| Toyohara Kunichika, Wakanotoku Amagoi Komachi |
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| Item No | #109069700 |
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| Item | Ukiyo-e(People) |
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| Artist | Toyohara Kunichika |
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| Price | $220.00 |
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| Weight | 0.01kg |
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| | 72.5cm 28 1/2" | | | 37cm 14 1/2" |
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Mitate-e is paintings which subject is taken from Japanese or Chinese classics and arranged to fit into modern culture. The woman depicted here is Ono No Komach, famous for Waka poem. She is a poet in the early Heian era, and one of 6 poets like Kino Tsurayuki, but her background hasn't been known almost at all. You could know her only through legends she left in Kyoto, Akita etc... Seven of those legends are expecially called "Nanakomachi". "Amagoi Komachi" in the title is one of them. The story is, when draught lasted for long time, Komachi read a poem of calling for rain, then rain began to fall immediately. This artwork suggests the legend only by depicting Komachi in rain.
Triptych connected
Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900) was a Japanese woodblock print artist. Talented as a child, at about thirteen he became a student of Tokyo's then-leading print maker, Utagawa Kunisada. His deep appreciation and knowledge of kabuki drama led to his production primarily of ukiyo-e actor-prints, which are woodblock prints of kabuki actors and scenes from popular plays of the time.
An alcoholic and womanizer, Kunichika also portrayed women deemed beautiful (bijinga), contemporary social life, and a few landscapes and historical scenes. He worked successfully in the Edo era, and carried those traditions into the Meiji era. To his contemporaries and now to some modern art historians, this has been seen as a significant achievement during a transitional period of great social and political change in Japan's history.
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