Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments
height 198 mm × width 174 mm
Katsushika Hokutai
Court Lady Holding a Fan
Japan, c. 1815 - c. 1820
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1983;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-468
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Katsushika Hokutai was a follower of Katsushika Hokusai, and used the names Katsushika, Eisai, Shinshinshi and Raito.
Entry
A court lady in elaborate clothing, an open fan in her hand, against a dark ground in a vertical panel at left. To the right a poetry-slip decorated with plum blossoms.
The composition actually represents a combination of the two most frequently used sheets of paper for writing poetry, a shikishi to the right, a tanzaku at left. The poem on the left is inscribed on a miniature tanzaku poetry-slip.
Two poems by —shutei Unumichi and —(?).
Issued by the poets
Signature reading: Shinshinshi Hokutai
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 351
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Katsushika Hokutai, Court Lady Holding a Fan, Japan, c. 1815 - c. 1820', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.444065
(accessed 27 November 2024 03:34:11).