Ono no Komachi, by Totoya Hokkei

An image of Ono no Komachi. Hokkei, Totoya (Japanese, 1780-1850). Surimono. Colour print from woodblocks, with metallic pigment, mica and blind embossing; blackened red lead pigment in the drapery. c.1820s. Poetry by Gorotai Toshiyori, circa 1820-circa 1829. Ukiyo-e. Notes: The poem tells us that this blooming cherry tree, named Komachi after the famous court beauty and poet, is so elegant in the spring rain that all the other trees are eager to gaze at her with their opened buds (the Japanese word for ‘buds’, me, also means ‘eyes’).

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Ono no Komachi. Hokkei, Totoya (Japanese, 1780-1850). Surimono. Colour print from woodblocks, with metallic pigment, mica and blind embossing; blackened red lead pigment in the drapery. c.1820s. Poetry by Gorotai Toshiyori, circa 1820-circa 1829. Ukiyo-e. Notes: The poem tells us that this blooming cherry tree, named Komachi after the famous court beauty and poet, is so elegant in the spring rain that all the other trees are eager to gaze at her with their opened buds (the Japanese word for ‘buds’, me, also means ‘eyes’).

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Accession Number: P.354-1937
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 909 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 929.61kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2018:10:24 15:31:50

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