Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments
height 135 mm × width 176 mm
Kitagawa Tsukimaro
A Porcelain Pot and Folded Paper
Japan, Japan, 1809
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Johannes Marcus (Kunsthandel Magdalena Sothmann), Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1983;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-469
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Kitagawa Tsukimaro (d. 1830) was a pupil of Kitagawa Utamaro, early name Kikumaro, changing the character for 'Kiku' in 1802 and taking the name Tsukimaro from 1804. He also used the art-names Bokutei, Kansetsu and Kansetsusai.
Entry
A blue-and-white porcelain pot on three feet, probably containing sand; in the foreground, a package made of folded gold paper, possibly containing incense.
It was customary to burn incense on sand in containers made of various materials.
The design is printed on crêped paper, a special effect sometimes favoured on surimono from the late 1790s and early 1800s (cf. RP-P-1991-619 and RP-P-1991-626). The date of the print is at top left, 'Early Spring of the Snake Year', Mi no shoshun, i.e., 1809.
One poem by Ichimian Arashihito(?) [or Arashindo]. The name of the Asakusagawa poetry club appears, as a rarity, in a vertical hand-stamped cartouche at bottom right.
Issued by the poet, a member of the Asakusagawa (also known as Tsubogawa)
Signature reading: Tsukitnaro no zu
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 189
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Kitagawa Tsukimaro, A Porcelain Pot and Folded Paper, Japan, 1809', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.422487
(accessed 23 November 2024 06:34:10).