Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments
height 125 mm × width 167 mm
Hishikawa Sôri
Woman Playing with a Young Boy
Japan, Japan, Japan, 1804
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1985;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-562
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Hishikawa Sori, previously Tawaraya Soji, also used the name Hyakurin, was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai, who received the name Sori (III) in 1798.
Entry
A woman sitting by a standing screen, tsuitate, holds a toy rat while a boy crawls towards her, a toy mallet behind him.
The toy mallet in the design is a reference to Daikoku's Hammer of Chaos, Konton no tsuchi, the usual attribute of this God of Fortune, whose messenger is a rat. That the signature - probably to the right - was trimmed off makes it unlikely that this surimono, clearly in the Hokusai tradition, was also signed by Hokusai.
Two poems by Yabunouchi Nanamori and Hekirotei Hamanari.
The first poem expresses the happy anticipation before the New Year of the Rat when nothing is as it was before.
Issued by the poets
Unsigned
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 122
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hishikawa Sôri, Woman Playing with a Young Boy, Japan, 1804', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.363067
(accessed 23 November 2024 16:01:51).