Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting
height 135 mm × width 187 mm
Hishikawa Sôri
The Maker of Court-caps
Japan, Japan, 1802
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Kunsthandel Huys den Esch, Dodewaard, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1992; 1 by whom donated to the museum, 1995
Object number: RP-P-1995-279
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Context
This design was later reprinted as Plate 9 in the Kyoka Album - A Mirror of Craftsmen, Kyoka - Ehon shokunin kagami, of 1803.
The artist
Hishikawa Sori, previously Tawaraya Soji, also used the name Hyakurin, was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai, who received the name Sori (III) in 1798.
Entry
A woman kneeling by a seated courtier, a court-cap, eboshi, in her hands. The man has a gold-lacquered cap of a more simple type in front of him.
The Maker of Court-caps, Eboshiori, from the series The Thirty-six Poets as Craftsmen, Shokunin sanjurokkasen.
For general notes on the series, see RP-P-1999-235.
To the left the dating 'Beginning of the New Dog Year', Mizunoe inu [no] hatsuharu, i.e., 1802.
One poem by Hananotei Yaemata(?).
Issued by the Asakusagawa (also known as Tsubogawa)
Signature reading: Sori ga
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 117
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hishikawa Sôri, The Maker of Court-caps, Japan, 1802', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.318638
(accessed 22 September 2024 01:24:05).