Artworks

Kayoi Komachi (Seven Modern Dandified Komachi)

Artwork · Suzuki Harunobu · 1766–1767 · Japanese woodblock print · Tokyo National Museum

From a series by Suzuki Harunobu (1725–1770), the first to produce nishiki-e, modernizing the events in the life of the Heian poet Ono no Komachi: here she stands on her veranda while her maidservant counts on her fingers the nights the would-be lover has kept his promise to visit — the Nō play has him die on the hundredth. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 281–283, fig. 321. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.