Kuronushi from the series The New Six Immortal Poets
Medium
color woodblock print
Dimensions
33.4 × 20.5 cm
Classification
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection
Accession Number
1956.755
Tags
male
About this artwork
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 w...