Title(s)

Preface

Object type

• page

Object number

RP-P-1970-65-1

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 40
• Jap Cat II 87

Inscriptions / marks

• date

Description

Eerste en tweede pagina uit het boek Fugenzo van Utamaro. Ingeplakt: een handgeschreven notitie van de verzamelaar Edmond de Goncourt.

Artist

• print maker: Kitagawa Utamaro
• Tsumuri no Hikaru (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Tsutaya Juzaburo (Koshodo)

Place

Edo

Dating

1790

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments, folding album

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 254 mm × width 183 mm

Credit line

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

Acquisition

purchase 1970

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The Album The Images of Fugen (RP-P-1970-65)

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 43, cat.nr. 40
• Catalogue of pre-Meiji Japanese books and maps in public collections in the Netherlands, H. Kerlen, cat.nr. 398
• The passionate art of Kitagawa Utamaro, cat.nr. 474
• The age of Utamaro : Japanese prints c., 1780-1800, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, cat.nr. 87
• The history of Japanese printing and book illustration, David Chibbett, cat.nr. 177
• Block printing & book illustrations in Japan, Louise Norton Brown, cat.nr. 169
• Japanese colour prints, Laurence Binyon, J.J. O'Brien Sexton, 184f.
• Outamaro : le peintre des maisons vertes, Edmond de Goncourt, 120f, 178 ff.
• Katsunosuke Nakada, Ehon no kenkyu (Study of Illustrated Books), Kunitachi 1977, 91f.
• Toshiyuki Suzuki, Tsutajuu shuppan shomoku (Nihon shoshigaku taikei, 77), Murayama 1998, p. 136.