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
current location:
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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remark:
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Ukiyo-e: The Floating World Revisited
opening date: 1993-10-26T04:00:00
Ukiyo-e: The Floating World Revisited. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 2-April 3, 1994).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Japanese Prints and Ceramics from The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, and The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. 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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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.
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 Anthology of Ancient and Modern Verse (Kokinwakashū) 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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