Mount Fuji and a Blossoming Plum, Teisai Hokuba, c. 1825

Title(s)

Mount Fuji and a Blossoming Plum

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1958-577

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 266
• Jap Cat III 113

Inscriptions / marks

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

Description

De berg Fuji gezien door wolken, met op de voorgrond een bloeiende pruimenboom. Met twee gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Teisai Hokuba (mentioned on object)
• Hyakuchûan Sajindo (mentioned on object)
• Asakusaan (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1825

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 213 mm × width 186 mm

What

• mountains
• tree: plum-tree
• clouds

Credit line

• J.A. Bierens de Haan Bequest, Amsterdam

Acquisition

bequest 1958

Copyright

Public domain

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 146, cat.nr. 266
• Jewels of Japanese printmaking : surimono of the Bunka-Bunsei era 1804-1830, Joan B. Mirviss, John T. Carpenter, cat.nr. 20
• Hokusai and his school : Japanese prints, c.1800-1840, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, p. 67-68, cat.nr. 113