Object data
nishikie
height 191 mm × width 112 mm
Utagawa Kunisada (I)
Smoking Set on Bench
Japan, c. 1810 - c. 1815
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-1999-257-4
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Context
This 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, i.e., 1850, contains works predominantly by Settan and other designers. For more prints from this album, see e.g., RP-P-1999-257-22.
The artist
Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) was a pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni, who dominated the field of kabuki prints until his death. Kunisada's prints of beautiful women, bijinga, were also very successful. Only well after he had established himself as a designer of actor prints did he enter the world of surimono design, becoming the most prolific designer of surimono in the Utagawa tradition. He also used the art-names Ichiyusai, Gototei and Kochoro.
Entry
A smoking set and a covered tea bowl on a stand placed on a bench covered with a red mat outside a teahouse.
One poem by Shu—tei —masu, with seal: Hana.
Issued by the poet
Signature reading: Kunisada ga, with Toshidama ring
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 206
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Utagawa (I) Kunisada, Smoking Set on Bench, Japan, c. 1810 - c. 1815', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.363576
(accessed 25 December 2024 18:17:29).