Zesendertig dichters, Katsukawa Shunsho, 1789

Title(s)

Zesendertig dichters
Sanjurokkasen (title on object)

Object type

• book

Object number

RP-P-1965-444

Catalogue reference

• Jap Cat I 126

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Boek met de 36 dichters, elk afgebeeld naast eigen gedicht. Goudkleurige brokaten kaft met bloempatroon; titelstrook middenboven; 42 bladen; vier bladen, voorwoord; één pagina, illustratie; één pagina, inleiding; 36 bladen, afbeeldingen van dichters met gedicht; laatste pagina, colofon. Boek bewaard in donkerrode chitsu (uitklapbaar doosje).

Artist

• print maker: Katsukawa Shunsho (mentioned on object)
• Katsukawa Shunsho (mentioned on object)
• Sayama Chikayuki (mentioned on object)
• Shunpudo Ryukotsu (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Yamazaki Kinbei (mentioned on object)

Place

Edo

Dating

1789

Material

• paper
• kaft: brocade (textile)

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 301 mm × width 210 mm

What

• writer, poet, author

Credit line

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

Acquisition

purchase 1965

Copyright

Public domain

• Catalogue of pre-Meiji Japanese books and maps in public collections in the Netherlands, H. Kerlen, 569, cat.nr. 1388
• The age of Harunobu : early Japanese prints, c. 1700-1780, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, 88-89, cat.nr. 126