id:			134293
accession number:	1956.755
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.755
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Kuronushi from the series The New Six Immortal Poets, c. 1795. Chōbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829). Color woodblock print; sheet: 33.4 x 20.5 cm (13 1/8 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection 1956.755

title:				Kuronushi from the series The New Six Immortal Poets
title in original language:	新六歌仙 黒主
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creation date:			c. 1795
creation date earliest:		1790
creation date latest:		1799
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creditline:			The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	color woodblock print
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Chōbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 33.4 x 20.5 cm (13 1/8 x 8 1/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signature: Eishi zu
Seal: kiwame
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Ukiyo-e: The Floating World Revisited
	opening date:   1993-10-26T04:00:00
	<i>Ukiyo-e: The Floating World Revisited</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 2-April 3, 1994).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Japanese Prints and Ceramics from The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, and The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College</em>. College of Wooster, Wooster, OH (1981).

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PROVENANCE

	Fanny Tewksbury King [1867–1949], Cleveland, OH, sold by her estate to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1956
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1956–
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wall description:
This print shows a courtesan adjusting her hairdo before a mirror as her attendant looks on. In the cartouche next to her is a poem by Ōtomo no Kuronishi, a Heian period courtier celebrated as one of the Six Immortal Poets. His portrait and name appear in the disk-shaped title cartouche. <br><br>The poem reads: "Mirror Mountain / Has been raised high / To show us all / Our Lord will live a thousand years!" The poem appears in the <em>Anthology of Ancient and Modern Verse</em> <em>(Kokinwakashū)</em> with a note that it was sung at the investiture of the Emperor Daigo (885-930). Here, the courtesan could be perceived as a stand-in for the emperor, making this a rather risqué print.
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