Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting
height 206 mm × width 183 mm
Yanagawa Shigenobu (II)
Woman Walking Past a Fence
Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1825 - 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, 1983;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-455
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Yanagawa Shigenobu II (died after 1868), a pupil of Yanagawa Shigenobu, first used the name Shigeyama or, incorrectly often read as Juzan, and either took the name of his teacher after Shigenobu left for Osaka, or only after his death in 1833.
Entry
A woman walking past a fence on a rainy evening, a pine tree to the left.
Number Three: The Flower That Doesn't Speak, Sono san - Mono iwanu hana, from the series A Comparison of Flowers, Hana awase.
The title may refer to the woman's aversion to gossiping.
Three poems by Kakuyushi Kamemaru [Kano lists two poets named Kamemaru, both from Osaka, however],2 ??tei Otone and Kayuen Nagafumi [also Kasuga, earlier Raryotei Sodehiko, a member of the Sugawararen, publishing from 1826].3
Issued by the Sugawararen
Signature reading: Yanagawa Shigenobu, with seal: Yanagawa
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 377
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, ', Yanagawa (II) Shigenobu, Woman Walking Past a Fence, Japan, c. 1825 - c. 1830', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.432603
(accessed 15 November 2024 05:57:19).