Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments
height 116 mm × width 148 mm
anonymous (attributed to)
An Actor Print
Japan, 1836
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1988;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-634
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
A print portraying an actor in an unidentified role.
The text above the image identifies the actor as [Nakamura] Shikan. Most likely, this is Nakamura Shikan III (1810-47), who took the name Shikan from 1/1836, when Shikan II took that of Nakamura Utaemon IV. This print is a picture calendar, egoyomi, for the New Year 1836. Small numerals alongside the characters of the text indicating the long months of 1836, 2, 4, 5,7, 9 and 11, are written as symbols giving the reading of uncommon characters, furigana.
No poems.
Issued by the designer
Unsigned
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 214
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'attributed to anonymous, An Actor Print, Japan, 1836', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.422491
(accessed 23 November 2024 13:12:35).