Seated Woman with Pipe, Yashima Gakutei, c. 1828

Title(s)

Seated Woman with Pipe

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1991-551

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 461
• Goslings 13

Description

Een zittende courtisane. De pijp in haar hand en de bok op haar kimono zijn de attributen van de geluksgod Jurôjin. Met twee gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Yashima Gakutei (mentioned on object)
• Ryûsanrô Okikaze (mentioned on object)
• Yoshinoya Futuba (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1828

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments

Material

• Japanese paper (handmade paper)

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 212 mm × width 189 mm

What

• courtesan, hetaera
• pipe ~ tobacco

Credit line

• Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

Acquisition

gift 1991

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Japanese woodblock prints in miniature, Kurt Meissner
• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 247, cat.nr. 461
• Reading surimono: the interplay of text and image in Japanese prints : with a catalogue of the Marino Lusy collection, John T. Carpenter, cat.nr. 54
• Surimono, J.H.W. Goslings, p. 15, cat.nr. 13
• The Baur collection, Geneva: Japanese prints, Matthi Forrer (Matthias Franciscus Maria), cat.nr. G256