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Poet Kakinomoto Hitomaro 柿本 人麿

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Kakinomoto Hitomaro (660-ca. 720) is one of the "36 Poet Princes" of Japan (三十六歌仙, Sanjû rokkasen). He became famous for his short poems. Hitomaro is universally revered in Japan. His poems are also part of the "school material" of the present day. The figure lacks one attribute: the writing brush in his right hand. The type of this figure goes back to the clothing and behaviour of the period around 700. The armrest (recognisable on the left) is a piece of furniture imported from China and frequently used by writing scholars since then (Siegmar Nahser, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Figure
Dimensions
Height: 12 cm
Depth: 6,5 cm
Width: 11,3 cm
Material/Technique
Metal , Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I D 6015

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    End of the Edo period/Meiji period (beginning), before 1881
    where
    Japan
  • Collecting
    who
    Leopold Müller (1822-04-21 - 1893-10-13) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    East and North Asia

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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