Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting
height 198 mm × width 183 mm
Utagawa Sadafusa
Woman Preparing Greens in a Mortar
Japan, Japan, c. 1825 - c. 1830
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-1991-470
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Utagawa Sadafusa was a pupil of Utagawa Kunisada. He also used the art name Gokitei or Gokintei. Later, he moved to Osaka.
Entry
A seated woman wearing a black kimono prepares to grind some greens in a mortar, apparently intended as food for the nightingale, uguisu, in the bird-cage at her side.
Two poems by Haginoya Katsumi [or Kotomi?, possibly the same as Haginoya II Torikane, later Ichiyuken Mimine, a judge of the Honchoren],2 and Manyotei Miyako no Otonari [probably not one of the three Otonari’s listed in Kano3]. Both are rather conventional New Year poems.
Issued by the poets
Signature reading: Gokintei Sadafusa ga, with Toshidama rings
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 573
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Utagawa Sadafusa, Woman Preparing Greens in a Mortar, Japan, c. 1825 - c. 1830', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.446786
(accessed 23 November 2024 16:04:25).