Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments
height 214 mm × width 184 mm
Yanagawa Shigenobu (II)
Lady Seated by Birdcage
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1825 - c. 1830
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1983;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-463
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Yanagawa Shigenobu II (died after 1868), a pupil of Yanagawa Shigenobu, first used the name Shigeyama or, incorrectly often read as Juzan, and either took the name of his teacher after Shigenobu left for Osaka, or only after his death in 1833.
Entry
A lady and her page-boy seated by a birdcage from which the bird has just escaped.
Number Five: The Flower of the Heart, Sono go - Kokoro no hana, from the series A Comparison of Flowers, Hana awase.
The 'Flower of the Heart' in the title may refer to the bird.
Three poems by Kogetsutei Hayao from Shinshu [i.e., Shinano Province], Goshintei Misaru, and Rikkaen.
Issued by the Sugawararen
Signature reading: Yanagawa Shigenobu, with seal: Yanagawa
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 379
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, ', Yanagawa (II) Shigenobu, Lady Seated by Birdcage, Japan, c. 1825 - c. 1830', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.446729
(accessed 15 November 2024 11:48:11).