Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments
height 197 mm × width 173 mm
anonymous
Toy Seller and Two Children
Japan, c. 1826
Inscriptions
- collector's mark, verso, stamped
Provenance
…; collection Samuel Tuke (1854-1937), Netherton Hall, near Honiton, Devon (L. 2973);…; 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-1991-570
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Context
Horai Sanjin was, with Sairaikyo, involved in selecting poems for The Illustrated Kyoka hyakusho zuden (1826), illustrated by Kuninao, as well as, with Nennensai, for the Kyoka Poems on Beauties as Hermits, Kyoka bijin kasenshu (1820s), illustrated by Kuninao and Eisen.2
Entry
A toy seller wearing a straw hat, his wares in a box hanging from his neck, shows butterflies on a stick to two young boys.
The toys are butterflies attached to a string, called ‘butterflies from Mount Yoshino’, Yoshinoyama chocho in the poem.
One poem by Shojuro, alias betsugo Horai Sanjin [II, 1792 – 1862, also Shikkokuro and Shojuan Nagatoshi, later Utei Enba II].3
Issued by the poet
Unsigned
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 482
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'anonymous, Toy Seller and Two Children, Japan, c. 1826', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.435456
(accessed 23 November 2024 23:15:46).