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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 ]
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 ...
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]
Reflecting the aristocratic atmosphere, the poetry was elegant and sophisticated and expressed emotions in a rhetorical style. Editing the resulting anthologies of poetry soon became a national pastime. The iroha poem, now one of two standard orderings for the Japanese syllabary, was also developed during the early Heian period.
Ono no Komachi (Japanese: 小野小町) [11] Ōshikōchi no Mitsune (Japanese: 凡河内宿禰躬恒 Ōshikōchi no Sukune Mitsune) [12] Ōtomo no Kuronushi (Japanese: 大友村主黒主 Ōtomo no Muranushi Kuronushi) [4]
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 ...
Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto 大中臣頼基 (c. 886–958), middle Heian period waka poet and nobleman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; Ono no Komachi 小野 小町 or おののこまち (c. 825 – c. 900), early Heian period waka poet, one of the Rokkasen — the Six best Waka poets; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; noted as a rare ...