Shells on a Pine Beach

Japan, Japan, 1796

Object data

nishikie, with blindprinting

height 135 mm × width 180 mm

Inscriptions

stamped: lower right, in red ink, with seal of Hayashi Tadamasa; stamped on verso, with mark of Gerhard Pulverer

Provenance

…; the dealer or collection Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906) (L. 2971);...; collection Gerhard Pulverer, Cologne (collector's mark);…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1988;¹ by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-632

Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

Context

The artist

Entry

A view of a pine beach with the trees to the left; the tidemark crossing the sheet diagonally, marked by numerous shells.

The dating of the print is given in a vertical cartouche at top right, reading 'The Pleasures of the New Dragon Year', Tatsuno shunkyo, i.e., 1796.

One poem by Shofutei Fumio. The poem refers to the melancholy that is dispelled by the anticipation of New Year.

Issued by the poet
Signature reading: Osendo (?) ga

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 13

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'possibly Osendô, Shells on a Pine Beach, Japan, 1796', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.422423

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