Object data
nishikie
height 190 mm × width 190 mm
Hasegawa Settan
A Basket of Young Shoots
Japan, Japan, 1831
Inscriptions
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lower left, in red ink, oblong seal of the printer, reading: kozensai
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-1999-257-20
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Context
This print was preserved in an album apparently compiled by Gasai Sadachika at the age of 67 in the autumn of the Year of the Dog in the Kaei period, Kanoe inu, 1850, containing works predominantly by Settan and other designers. For more prints from this album, see e.g. RP-P-1999-257-1.
The artist
Hasegawa Settan (1778–1843), a pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni, was probably best known for his illustrations to the Illustrated Famous Places of Edo, Edo meisho zue (1834/1836), and the Annual Events in the Eastern Capital, Toto saijiki (1832). He received the honorary rank of hokkyo in about 1824.
Entry
A bamboo basket of young shoots, identified by small markers.
The markers read, from right to left, Long Months, Dai no tsuki: Second Month, Kisaragi; Sixth Month, Minatsuki; Moon Viewing, i.e., the Eighth Month, Tsukimi; Tenth Month, Shigure; Eleventh Month, Kaminatsuki; Twelfth Month, Shiwasu. In fact all are poetic names for the months.
One poem by Shukaku, with seal: Shukaku, on the unchanging Seven Herbs of Spring, Haru no nanakusa, which were ground to make a health-preserving rice gruel eaten on the 7th Day of the First Month. The poem indicates the short months for 1831, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9.
Issued by the poet
Signature reading: hokkyo Settan no zu, with seal reading: Gangaku
Printer: Kozensai (Kozen[sai])
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 57
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hasegawa Settan, A Basket of Young Shoots, Japan, 1831', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.363642
(accessed 21 September 2024 14:32:42).