Object data
nishikie
height 184 mm × width 124 mm
Hasegawa Settan
Woman Chopping Seaweed
Japan, 1810
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-1999-257-3
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 woman squatting by a chopping board resting on two buckets, chopping seaweed with two knives. On her back a sleeping child.
The dating New Year of the Horse, Uma no toshi, i.e., 1810, appears at top left.
Two haiku poems by Shun? and illegible [Yanobo ?tai].
Issued by the poets
Signature reading: Settan, with seal reading: Gangaku
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 51
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hasegawa Settan, Woman Chopping Seaweed, Japan, 1810', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.363575
(accessed 29 March 2025 21:53:14).