Plum Blossoms and Poet, Ryûryûkyo Shinsai, c. 1825

Title(s)

Plum Blossoms and Poet

Object type

Object number

RP-P-1958-525X

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 365c
• Jap Cat III 100

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark, passe-partout, bottom left, printed: JABdH with a rooster.
• collector's mark, verso, stamped: Lugt 2228

Description

Twee delen van een miniatuur kamerscherm met links een dichter en een bediende uitkijkend over de zee; rechts pruimenbloesem en een zilveren maan. Met twee gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Ryûryûkyo Shinsai (mentioned on object)
• Shôzanrô Shigemi (mentioned on object)
• Seikaitei Kamehito (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1825

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments and embossing

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 211 mm × width 182 mm

What

• screen, folding screen

Credit line

• J.A. Bierens de Haan Bequest, Amsterdam

Acquisition

bequest 1958

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Landschap en Ôharame
• Seiôbô en een langharige schildpad

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 198-199, cat.nr. 365C
• Jewels of Japanese printmaking : surimono of the Bunka-Bunsei era 1804-1830, Joan B. Mirviss, John T. Carpenter, cat.nr. 28
• Jewels of Japanese printmaking : surimono of the Bunka-Bunsei era 1804-1830, Joan B. Mirviss, John T. Carpenter, cat.nr. 447
• The art of surimono : privately published Japanese woodblock prints and books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Roger S. Keyes, cat.nr. 287
• Surimono : Japanese fine art : [Joan B. Mirviss 1985], Joan B. Mirviss
• Surimono : privately published Japanese prints in the Spencer Museum of Art, Roger S. Keyes, cat.nr. 48
• Hokusai and his school : Japanese prints, c.1800-1840, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, p. 63, cat.nr. 100
• Surimono : Prints by Elbow, Edythe Polster, Alfred H. Marks
• Surimono : privately published prints from the Spencer Museum of Art, Tokyo (Riccar Art Museum) 1991, cat.nr. 43.
• Daniel McKee, Japanese Poetry Prints: Surimono from the Schoff Collection, Ithaca (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art) 2006, cat.nr. 20.