Zuishinin

Colorful sliding door paintings depicting the life of Ono no Komachi

It is said to be the place where Ono no Komachi, a female writer of the Heian period, spent the rest of her life. The four sliding door paintings depicting Ono no Komachi’s life are also noteworthy.

［Gokusaishikiumeiro-Komachiezu］
It was painted in 2009 by the two-person art unit Daruma Shoten. The four panels depict Ono no Komachi from her birth to her courtly days and her later years.

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  The fusuma paintings are displayed in the “Noh Room” of the Omoteshoin.

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  Check out the monument to Ono Komachi's Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred Poems).