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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 ]
His poems are like peddlers tricked out in fancy dress. The language of the Ujiyama monk Kisen is dazzling, but his poems do not flow smoothly. Reading him is like trying to keep the autumn moon in sight when a cloud obscures it before dawn. Ono no Komachi belongs to the same like as Sotoorihime of old.
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 ...
Although the subjects of kusōzu are typically anonymous noblewomen, there are many that are explicitly intended to depict the Heian Waka poet Ono no Komachi (小野小町). [ 2 ] : 296 These depictions of Komachi are related to a tradition of literature that emphasises the contrast between her physical beauty during her youth, and her ageing ...
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]
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 .
Category for articles related to Ono no Komachi, a ninth-century Japanese poet who was considered the archive of the beautiful Japanese woman. This category includes sites associated with her, literary works about her, etc.
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