Title(s)

The album Selected Insects

Object type

• book

Object number

RP-P-1960-10A

Catalogue reference

• Jap Cat II 85
• Forrer 36

Inscriptions / marks

• date

Description

Deel twee (van twee) van een verzameling van 30 gedichten met als onderwerp insecten. Het eigenlijke thema is de liefde. De gedichten zijn geselecteerd door de dichter Yadoya no Meshimori (1753-1830). De afbeeldingen van insecten op bloemen en planten zijn van de hand van Utamaro. Donkerblauwe kaft; linksboven titelstrook; 8 bladen: eerste pagina, blanco; zeven illustraties (over twee pagina`s) van insecten met bloemen en planten, met gedichten; laatste pagina, colofon.

Artist

• print maker: Kitagawa Utamaro (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Tsutaya Juzaburo (Koshodo) (mentioned on object)
• Yadoya Meshimori (mentioned on object)

Place

Edo

Dating

1788

Physical features

nishikie, with mica

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 250 mm × width 180 mm

What

• flowers

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Parts

• Red dragonfly and locust by pinks (RP-P-1960-10A-1)
• Snake and lizard by a bush (RP-P-1960-10A-2)
• Basketworm and helmetbeetle on bush clover and stone-leek flower (RP-P-1960-10A-3)
• Snail and noisy cricket on eggplant (RP-P-1960-10A-4)
• Katydid and cicada on gourd (RP-P-1960-10A-5)
• Earthworm and black cricket on creeping saxifrage (RP-P-1960-10A-6)
• Frogs and gold bug near lotus (RP-P-1960-10A-7)
• Colofon (RP-P-1960-10A-8)

Is part of

• The Album Selected Insects (RP-P-1960-10)

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 40, cat.nr. 36
• Catalogue of pre-Meiji Japanese books and maps in public collections in the Netherlands, H. Kerlen, 118, cat.nr. 299
• The passionate art of Kitagawa Utamaro, cat.nr. 463
• Hizo ukiyoe taikan : Pulverer korekushon, dl. 3, cat.nr. 23
• The art of surimono : privately published Japanese woodblock prints and books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Roger S. Keyes, cat.nr. 376
• The age of Utamaro : Japanese prints c., 1780-1800, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, 64, cat.nr. 85
• The history of Japanese printing and book illustration, David Chibbett, 176,177
• Ukiyo-e : die Kunst der heiteren vergänglichen Welt, Japan 17.-19. Jahrhundert : Sammlung Scheiwe, Rose Hempel, cat.nr. 143
• Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kenji Toda, Frederick William Gookin, cat.nr. 220-222
• Block printing & book illustrations in Japan, Louise Norton Brown, cat.nr. 169
• Japanese colour prints, Laurence Binyon, J.J. O'Brien Sexton, cat.nr. 182
• Livres & albums illustrés du Japon, Théodore Duret, cat.nr. 138
• Outamaro : le peintre des maisons vertes, Edmond de Goncourt, cat.nr. 115f., 182
• Katsunosuke Nakada, Ehon no kenkyu (Study of Illustrated Books), Kunitachi 1977, 91f.
• Toshiyuki Suzuki, Tsutajuu shuppan shomoku (Nihon shoshigaku taikei, 77), Murayama 1998, 114f.