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Details
- Alternative title
- sotōba no tsuki
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Meiji period 1868 - 1912 → Japan
- Date
- March 1886
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodblock; ōban
- Dimensions
- 39.0 x 26.0 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated.
- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 258.2012.25
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
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About
This print depicts a scene from the nō play 'Sotōba Komachi' ('Gravemarker Komachi'). The play is one of seven important nō pieces based on the life of Ono no Komachi, a well known beauty and poetess in the ninth century. Here, she sits in a thoughtful, melancholic remembrance of her life on a fallen gravemarker, having been criticised for her contempt of the dead by two passing priests.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Theatre of dreams, theatre of play: no and kyogen in Japan, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Jun 2014–14 Sep 2014
Yoshitoshi: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2016–20 Nov 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Yuriko Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi Tsuki hyakushi (Yoshitoshi’s One hundred aspects of the moon), Tokyo, 2010. General reference; Another edition was reproduced
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John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One hundred aspects of the moon, Seattle, 1992, (colour illus.). cat.no. 25; Another edition was reproduced
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Chris UHLENBECK, Yoshitoshi: masterpieces from the Ed Freis collection, Leiden, 2011, 135-136. General reference; Another edition was reproduced
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