View of the Roofs of a Village

Japan, Japan, c. 1790 - c. 1800

Object data

nishikie

height 123 mm × width 177 mm

Inscriptions

stamped: lower right, in red ink, with seal of Hayashi Tadamasa

Provenance

…; the dealer or collection Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906) (L. 2971);…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1989;¹ by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-635

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

Entry

A view of village rooftops, with mist banks and a few trees, a willow tree towering over the scene.

The immediate and apparent simplicity of the design may lead us to assume that the poet was also the designer of the print. Kasumi no Sekimori issued a very similar design as a calendar print for 1784.²

One poem by Yamaga Sarumen, describing a village with long plumes of ascending 'green willow smoke', alluding to the villagers' longevity.

Issued by the poet
Unsigned

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 28

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'anonymous, View of the Roofs of a Village, Japan, c. 1790 - c. 1800', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.422432

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