Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments
height 131 mm × width 181 mm
Katsushika Hokusai
Two Women on the Veranda
Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1799
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Kunsthandel Huys den Esch, Dodewaard, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1985;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-566
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) first studied with Katsukawa Shunsho but later developed his own style. He was occasionally influenced by various other traditions, and designed thousands of calendar prints and surimono from 1787 until about 1810. His surimono production diminished in the 1810s but he resumed his former output between 1321 and 1825. He is best known for his landscape prints of the 1830s.
Entry
A woman sitting on the veranda of a house looks into the garden, her attention apparently drawn by the nightingale, uguisu, seated on a branch of blossoming plum. Another woman standing next to her holds a kettle of spiced sake, tosasake, traditionally drunk at New Year.
Two poems by Yamaga Sarumen and Yomo [no Utagaki] Magao [1753-1829, Shikatsube Magao, pupil of Yomo Akara. Used the name 'Yomo' from 1796, when he became a judge of the Yomogawa. Alternative name Kyokado].2
The poet Sarumen is also recorded as the commissioner - and was possibly also the designer - of another surimono in this collection (cf. RP-P-1991-635).
Issued by a follower of the poet Yomo Magao
Signature reading: Sori aratame (changed his name to) Hokusai ga
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 93
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Katsushika Hokusai, Two Women on the Veranda, Japan, c. 1799', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.422442
(accessed 24 November 2024 07:46:36).