A Seated Warrior, Yashima Gakutei, 1825

Title(s)

A Seated Warrior

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1991-541

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 431
• Goslings 12

Description

De dichter krijgsman Minamoto no Yoshiie (1039?-1106), zittend met gedichtenbundel in zijn rechterhand. Met gedicht.

Artist

• print maker: Yashima Gakutei (mentioned on object)
• Fukunoya (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

1825

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments, blindprinting and tsuyazuri

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped / polish

Measurements

height 211 mm × width 186 mm

What

• sitting figure
• book

Credit line

• Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

Acquisition

gift 1991

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 231, cat.nr. 431
• Japanese prints, illustrated books and paintings, Sotheby's, cat.nr. 474
• Surimono : schenkingen Goslings 1991 en 1995, J.H.W. Goslings, p. 15, cat.nr. 12
• Egoyomi et surimono : calendriers et cartes de vœux : gravures sur bois des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles : collection Werner Schindler, Bienne, Werner Schindler, Claude Ritschard, cat.nr. 64
• Surimono : Prints by Elbow, Edythe Polster, Alfred H. Marks
• Claude Boisgirard en Axel de Heeckeren, Très importante collection de 260 surimono, Drouot (Parijs), 1978-06-29/30, cat.nr. 107.