Ono no Komachi wrote during Japan’s Heian era (794 to 1185), a true golden age for women writers, and for the arts generally. She is - the hell with it, I’ll claim it - one of the greatest ...

No other period in Japan's literary history was as dominated by women as the Heian Period (794-1185). Most Japanophiles know names such as Sei Shonagon ('The Pillow Book') or Murasaki Shikibu ...

Sarah M. Strong, The Making of a Femme Fatale. Ono no Komachi in the Early Medieval Commentaries, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Winter, 1994), pp. 391-412 ...

I couldn’t tell you who Ono no Komachi is, but she was some famous Japanese poet and now she has a limited edition SLR kit named after her. The Komachi Kit beefs up the Oly E-420 with a Zuiko ...

Artist Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) Provenance To 1907 Yamanaka & Company, to 1907 [1] From 1907 to 1919 Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1907 [2] From 1920 ...