# Parrot Komachi, from the series The Fashionable Seven Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi)

- By: Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756 –1829)
- Date: c. 1788
- Medium: Color woodblock print; oban
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: 36.5 × 25.1 cm (14 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
- Culture: Japan
- Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/87429)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/53ba11cc-5339-d5e6-5298-7693bb593935/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The stooped figure of an elderly Ono no Komachi stands in the distance behind two fashionable young women and a child. In this scene, one of the women holds a piece of paper with a poem written on it, a reference to a specific episode in Komachi’s life. After receiving a poem from the emperor, she replied by returning the same poem with only one character changed. Komachi’s response was comparable to that of a parrot, hence the name of the story, “Parrot Komachi."

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