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The Six Immortals of Poetry, Abbreviated
Chokosai Eisho (Japanese, active 1793-1799; Publisher: Yamaguchi-Ya; Japanese, unknown)
c. 1795
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban triptych
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 36 × 75.1 cm (14 3/16 × 29 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In this triptych print, the artist expressed appreciation for fine poems of the past by associating them with the three current leading, and possibly most beautiful, courtesans in the Yoshiwara pleasure district. Each of the three panels shows a courtesan with her male guest. In the background are six poems, one by each Immortal. These are inscribed over the style of decorative pattern found on cards used for writing poems. At the right is Narihira’s most famous love poem. A work by Ono no Komachi is on the left.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
