Amagoi Komachi, Komachi Praying for Rain, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1765, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 11 5/16 in. (28.7 cm); W. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm), Prints, Attributed to Torii Kiyomitsu (Japanese, 1735–1785), This print is a parody of the Kabuki play Komachi Praying for Rain, which is based on the legend of Ono no Komachi, the beautiful poetess of the ninth century. She put a card on which she had written a poem into a miniature boat and released it into a pond to pray for rain at the imperial garden
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