Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 79757
Sugawara Michizane in Exile
- Artist / 作者
- Kobayashi Kiyochika小林清親
- Date / 年代
- 1884
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / mia
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 800 × 415 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 朱雀ハル
- Rights / 権利
- Public Domain Mark only when record-designated
- Attribution / 表記
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Catalog note / 解説
Kiyochika often infused his depictions of Japanese historical subjects with novel expressiveness and verisimilitude. The title identifies the subject as Sugawara no Michizane (845-903), a renowned scholar, politician, poet, and calligrapher. He once held a high position, but was slandered by his rivals at court and was expelled to a remote region. Inspired by a poem by Michizane that was composed while at his distant post, Kiyochika designed this print showing him in exile. The courtier twists believably in space as he scans the horizon, and the shoreline below him recedes convincingly into space. The desolate beach and empty sea, bearing no ship to fetch him, well conveys his psychological…
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