Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting
height 208 mm × width 182 mm
Yanagawa Shigenobu (II)
Geisha Tuning her Shamisen
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1825 - c. 1830
Inscriptions
- inscription, verso, handwritten: Japanese character for number 10.
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1983;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-465
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 geisha tuning her shamisen, a songbook on a stand in front of her. On the veranda a cat, a blossoming plum in the garden.
Number Four: The Redeemed Geisha, Sono yon - Teike no hana, from the series A Comparison of Flowers, Hana awase.
The print-title refers to a redeemed geisha who has been bought by a client, also having the connotation of a personal assistant.
Three poems by Rakuyoan, Ryueishi and Buwaian Futaki [also Kamokuen or Sankai Chinjin, early name Kinjuen Futaki, a judge of the Sugawararen, publishing from 1826, d. 1843].2 The poet Buwaian Futaki seems to have still used the name Kinjuen in 1825 and 1827.
Issued by the Sugawararen
Signature reading: Yanagawa Shigenobu, with seal: Yanagawa
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 378
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, ', Yanagawa (II) Shigenobu, Geisha Tuning her Shamisen, Japan, c. 1825 - c. 1830', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.432609
(accessed 20 September 2024 15:17:48).