Komagata-do & an Announcement

Data

Komagata-do & an Announcement
Senshafuda print   (Part of the set: Heroic Episodes (Zodiac set))

Unknown
Toto Nosatsu-kai
1925

22.00 cm
18.00 cm

2020
00159-013
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00159-013

Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

Left: A rainy day at Komagata-do Temple inside the grounds of Sensoji in Asakusa. In the upper section of the print is a poem: Kimi wa ima / Komagata atari / hototogisu, meaning "By now, have you / reached Komagata / Oh, little cuckoo!" (translation by Ewa Machotka on page 126 of "Visual Genesis of Japanese National Identity: Hokusai's Hyakunin Isshu"). A fun detail of the print is that the word Komagata is left out of the calligraphy at the top - the assumption is that the poem is so well known that the viewer will know to insert the missing word when they are reading the text. Just in case, however, the word is included just below, above the temple door, helping the viewer to jog their memory and complete the poem.

Right: Someone called "Mameyakko" announces in the scroll held aloft that they are officially changing their name (possibly to "Chameko") from the time of the first (senjafuda group) meeting in January of Taisho 15 (1926) onwards. Their new name is repeated in the lower left corner of the panel.

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