Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting
height 190 mm × width 250 mm
Teisai Hokuba
Scene in a Tea House
Japan, Japan, Japan, 1805
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1984;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1992
Object number: RP-P-1991-552
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Teisai Hokuba (1771-1844) was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai. He used the art-name Teisai. There also seems to have been a Hokuba II.
Entry
A woman carrying a lidded bowl on a tray turns her head to speak to another woman preparing a meal on a serving tray, a sake cup in her hand. Behind them, a young girl looks out over the railing of the veranda. To the left an alcove, tokonoma, with a painting of a man riding an ox, a sword-stand in front of it.
This print seems to advertise the teahouse of Sokaya Yasubei at Yagenbori Fudomae, Edo. The painting in the tokonoma probably represents Roshi, better known as Lao-tzu, riding an ox led by an assistant. It is signed —(?) Hidehiko, with seals.
Two poems by Mayusumi [Keirindo or Wainando Katsura no Mayusumi, 1763-1833, a judge of the Kankogawa],2 and Hoshutei Nariyuki.
The poem by Mayusumi, which is inscribed on a hanging board as though part of the restaurant's menu, alludes to the - First dream of the New Year, when Spring has come again, the plum is blooming and we are drinking sake.
Issued by the teahouse owner Sokaya Yasubei(?)
Signature reading: Teisai Hokuba ga
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 124
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Teisai Hokuba, Scene in a Tea House, Japan, 1805', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.351299
(accessed 15 November 2024 09:37:46).