Object data
nishikie, with blindprinting and tsuyazuri
height 133 mm × width 180 mm
Katsushika Hokusai
A Court-cap on a Stand
Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1799
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Aoika, Japan, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1988;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-630
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 black-lacquered court-cap, eboshi, on a low wooden stand, its tasselled cords falling to the ground. The tasselled cords in blindprinting.
While there are only one or two surviving copies of many of Hokusai's early surimono, i.e., those designed before the 1820s, there is a duplicate of this print in the Rijksmuseum collection RP-P-1991-630, and another copy in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Two poems by Yakkorasai and Senshuan [II, Shimotoke or also Kasumi, 1761-1811, first a follower of Tsumuri no Hikaru, later a judge of the Asakusagawa and owner of a bookshop and publisher under the name of Yamanaka Yosuke].2
Issued by a follower of the poet Senshuan II
Signature reading: Sori aratame (changed his name to) Hokusai ga
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 94a
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Katsushika Hokusai, A Court-cap on a Stand, Japan, c. 1799', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.422443
(accessed 26 November 2024 09:40:26).