Object data
nishikie
height 218 mm × width 189 mm
Kubota Shunman
Seaweeds
Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1815 - c. 1820
Inscriptions
- collector's mark, verso, stamped
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1984;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-549
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Kubota Shunman (1757-1820), popularly called Kubo Shunman, was a pupil of Kitao Shigemasa who was also strongly influenced by Torii Kiyonaga and Katsukawa Shuncho. He created an attractive blend of the various ideals of feminine beauty prevalent in his time. He also used the art name Shosado. In addition to designing prints and making paintings, he was a poet and a writer and ran a studio that produced surimono. It was probably in this capacity that he introduced some of the innovations of the mid-Bunka period (1809-13), exploring the concept of large series of shikishiban surimono.
Entry
Various types of seaweed.
Hermifusus ternatanus, Codium nucronatum and Eckloris bicyclis, Umihozuki miru arame, from A Series of Seaweed for the Kasumiren, Kasumiren kaiso awase.
The entire design is printed without the use of a line-block.
Two poems by Gurendo Nakakubo [studied with Akera Kanko],2 and Haikai Utaba [Yomo no Utagaki Magao, 1753-1829, Shikatsube Magao, pupil of Yomo Akara. Used the name ‘Yomo’ from 1796, when he became a judge of the Yomogawa. Alternative name Kyokado].3
Issued by the Kasumiren
Signature reading: produced by, Shunman sei
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 227
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Kubota Shunman, Seaweeds, Japan, c. 1815 - c. 1820', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.422494
(accessed 20 September 2024 22:28:32).