Title : Edo Embroidery Picture, Comparison of Day and Night: Ono no Komachi (Azuma Nishiki Chuya Kurabe: Ono no Komachi)

Artist : Toyohara Chikanobu

Date : 1886

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Source : Scholten Japanese Art
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Description : the Heian period poet stands before a Shinto alter holding a manuscript, the cartouche with Ono no Komachi as an old woman peering at a crescent moon; signed Yôshû Chikanobu with artist's toshidama seal, engraver's seal Horiko Muneoka, publisher's information of Kobayashi Tetsujiro, and dated Meiji jukyunen Ichigatsu kyunichi (Meiji 19 [1886], first month, 9th day)

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