# Ono no Komachi at Seki Temple (Seki), from the series The Seven Fashionable Aspects of Komachi (Furyu yatsushi nana Komachi)

- By: Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770)
- Date: Edo period (1615–1868), 1751/64
- Medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: 31.2 × 14.1 cm (12 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
- Culture: Japan
- Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/26770)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/0430b3c8-14f7-008a-776f-a2cdb15120e0/full/!1380,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In the story of Ono no Komachi at Seki Temple (also the subject of a popular Nō play), a monk and a young boy visit an old woman who has a talent for poetry. When the woman utters a verse by Komachi, the monk realizes that she is Komachi herself. The poet and the boy then dance together. In this print, a young mother and her child stand in for Komachi and the boy. In the banner above them is a famous poem by Komachi:

I that am lonely, Like a reed root-cut Should a stream entice me, Would go, I think.

(Translation by Arthur Waley)

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0