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Ono no Komachi (小野 小町, c. 825 – c. 900 [citation needed]) was a Japanese waka poet, one of the Rokkasen—the six best waka poets of the early Heian period. She was renowned for her unusual beauty, and Komachi is today a synonym for feminine beauty in Japan . [ 1 ]
Five of the 36, Ono no Komachi, Lady Ise, Nakatsukasa, Saigū no Nyōgo and Kodai no Kimi also appeared in an earlier anthology with the similar title Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry which dates from 1113 (late Heian Period). The poet Fujiwara no Kintō chose this original selection that preceded the Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets. [3]
Ono no Komachi belongs to the same like as Sotoorihime of old. Her poetry is beautiful but weak, like an ailing woman wearing cosmetics. Ōtomo Kuronushi's poems belong to the line of Sarumaru of old. Although his poetry has a certain light, witty interest, the style is extremely crude, as though a peasant were resting in front of a flowering ...
The University of Tokyo has in its holdings a single-volume manuscript copied in Tenmon 14 (1545), with the title Ono no Komachi Sōshi (小野ゝ小町双紙). [1] The Tenri Central Library possesses a printed copy dating from roughly the Genna era (1615–1624), [1] and Waseda University and the Akagi Archive (赤木文庫 Akagi-bunko) both possess a Tan'en-bon (丹縁本) dating from around ...
Ki no Tomonori by Kanō Tan'yū, 1648 Lady Ise painting by Kanō Tan'yū, 1648 Kiyohara no Motosuke by Kanō Yasunobu, 1648 Fujiwara no Kiyotada by Kanō Naonobu, 1648. The Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry (三十六歌仙, Sanjūrokkasen) are a group of Japanese poets of the Asuka, Nara, and Heian periods selected by Fujiwara no Kintō as exemplars of Japanese poetic ability.
Printable version; In other projects ... Ono no Komachi (小野, c. 825 ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
Printable version; In other projects ... Ono no Komachi (小野小町, c. 825 – c ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
Kayoi Komachi (通小町) or Shii no Shōshō (The Courtship of Komachi) is a Noh play by Kan'ami Kiyotsugu, about the legend of the famous waka poet Ono no Komachi. Unlike Kan'ami's Sotoba Komachi , this play features the doomed lover Shōshō as the principal actor, and Komachi as the secondary or tsure .