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SUZUKI HARUNOBU. A Flute-Playing Monk (Komuso); The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen)

A Flute-Playing Monk (Komuso); The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen). Artist: Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725-1770). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm); W. 8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm). Date: ca. 1768.
Komuso were itinerant Zen Buddhist monks of the Fuke sect who traveled the countryside, covering their heads with oversize basketlike hats and playing bamboo flutes (shakuhachi). Here the young monk has caught the attention of young women, who ogle him from indoors. He turns to watch the flight of a cuckoo bird (hototogisu), a symbol of "the fourth month," the beginning of summer, and fleeting love. 
The anonymous poem is from the summer section of Seven Hundred Poems Compiled by Lord Shirakawa (Shirakawa-dono shichi-hyakushu, no. 136), compiled around 1265: 
Hito mo toe 
saku ya uzuki no 
hana-zakari
kocho ni nitaru  
yado no kakine o
Let everyone know
that now in the fourth month,
the deutzia flowers in bloom 
resemble butterflies covering 
a hedge in the garden.
--Trans. John T. Carpenter.
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A Flute-Playing Monk (Komuso); The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen)
A Flute-Playing Monk (Komuso); The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen). Artist: Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725-1770). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm); W. 8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm). Date: ca. 1768. Komuso were itinerant Zen Buddhist monks of the Fuke sect who traveled the countryside, covering their heads with oversize basketlike hats and playing bamboo flutes (shakuhachi). Here the young monk has caught the attention of young women, who ogle him from indoors. He turns to watch the flight of a cuckoo bird (hototogisu), a symbol of "the fourth month," the beginning of summer, and fleeting love. The anonymous poem is from the summer section of Seven Hundred Poems Compiled by Lord Shirakawa (Shirakawa-dono shichi-hyakushu, no. 136), compiled around 1265: Hito mo toe saku ya uzuki no hana-zakari kocho ni nitaru yado no kakine o Let everyone know that now in the fourth month, the deutzia flowers in bloom resemble butterflies covering a hedge in the garden. --Trans. John T. Carpenter.
Technik/Material:
Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Zeitraum:
Edo period (1615-1868)
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Bildnachweis:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Bildgröße:
3175 x 4236 px | 38.5 MB
Druckgröße:
26.9 x 35.9 cm | 10.6 x 14.1 in (300 dpi)