A Smoking Set and Turnips, Ryûryûkyo Shinsai, c. 1815 - c. 1820

Title(s)

A Smoking Set and Turnips
Turnips from Higashiyama

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1991-659

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 357
• Goslings 103

Description

Een rookset bestaande uit een zeer luxe pijphouder en een tabakszak, met daarachter twee rapen. Met drie gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Ryûryûkyo Shinsai (mentioned on object)
• Kashakutei Aigaki (mentioned on object)
• Harunoya Hajime (mentioned on object)
• Kûmanya Maeda (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1815 - c. 1820

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 207 mm × width 185 mm

What

• (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: turnip
• pipe ~ tobacco

Credit line

• Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

Acquisition

gift 1991

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 195, cat.nr. 357
• Surimono : poetry and image in Japanese prints, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Lee Bruschke-Johnson, cat.nr. 36
• Surimono : schenkingen Goslings 1991 en 1995, J.H.W. Goslings, p. 48, cat.nr. 103
• The art of surimono : privately published Japanese woodblock prints and books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Roger S. Keyes, cat.nr. 284
• Surimono : Japanese fine art : [Joan B. Mirviss 1985], Joan B. Mirviss, frontispice
• Zehntausendfaches Glück : farbige Bildergrüsse aus Japan : 16 Surimonos aus der Sammlung Emil Preetorius, Emil Preetorius, Emil Preetorius, cat.nr. 11