Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting
height 426 mm × width 189 mm
Utagawa Kunihiro
Young Woman Playing Battledore
Japan, c. 1820 - c. 1830
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1996;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1999
Object number: RP-P-1999-248
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
A young woman standing on the traditional New Year decorations of pine and bamboo, kadomatsu, using her battledore to retrieve a shuttlecock that has landed on the decorated rope.
One poem by Ichiyosai [probably Utagawa Toyokuni, 1769-1825, Kunihiro's teacher]. The poem is a haiku.
Issued by the designer(?)
Signature reading: Toyokuni no monjin (Toyokuni pupil) Kunihiro ga, with Toshidama ring
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 211
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Utagawa Kunihiro, Young Woman Playing Battledore, Japan, c. 1820 - c. 1830', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.359196
(accessed 21 September 2024 19:17:45).