Warrior Fighting a Dragon, Yashima Gakutei, c. 1822

Title(s)

Warrior Fighting a Dragon

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1991-464

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 425
• Goslings 11

Description

Generaal Tada no Mitsunaka (913-997) vecht met getrokken zwaard tegen een meerkoppige draak. Met één gedicht.

Artist

• print maker: Yashima Gakutei
• Hisakataya Misora (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1822

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments

Material

• Japanese paper (handmade paper)

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 200 mm × width 184 mm

What

• dragon

Credit line

• Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

Acquisition

gift 1991

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 226, cat.nr. 425
• Reading surimono : the interplay of text and image in Japanese prints : with a catalogue of the Marino Lusy collection, John T. Carpenter, Marino Lusy, cat.nr. 8
• Surimono : schenkingen Goslings 1991 en 1995, J.H.W. Goslings, p. 14, cat.nr. 11
• Surimono : Prints by Elbow, Edythe Polster, Alfred H. Marks
• Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Paintings, Sotheby's (Londen), 1988-12-15, cat.nr. 354 (no ill.).