Object data
stencil-printing, kappazuri, colour print
height 168 mm × width 81 mm
anonymous
A Dancing God
Japan, 1852
Provenance
…; collection Gasai Sadachika, Japan;…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1995;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1999
Object number: RP-P-1999-257-10
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Context
This print is from the same album as RP-P-1999-257-9.
For more on the Seven Gods of Good Fortune or Luck, the Shichifukujin, a popular group of household deities, see RP-P-1962-331.
Entry
The God of Fortune Fukurokuju dancing on a veranda, a pine tree behind.
This print is a picture calendar, egoyomi, for the New Year of the Rat 1852; the figure of the god is composed of the numerals for the long months of 1852. The print was produced using stencil-printing, kappazuri, still a common technique in (colour) printing, which was probably inspired by the local textile-dyeing industry.
The poem is followed by the word nedoshi, which translates literally as 'Year of the Rat', above an illegible seal. The poem incorporates the numerals for the short months of the year 1852.
Issued by the poet
Signature reading: with illegible seal
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 217
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'anonymous, A Dancing God, Japan, 1852', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.363582
(accessed 26 November 2024 09:52:24).