Object data
nishikie
height 139 mm × width 186 mm
Masayuki
Samples of Patterned Cloth
Japan, 1796
Inscriptions
-
stamped: lower right, in red ink, with seal of H. de Winiwarter
Provenance
…; collection Hans de Winiwarter (1865-1949), Liège; collection Edmond de Winiwarter (1879-1951), Ben-Ahin, near Liège (L. 1389);…; purchased from the dealer Bernard Haase, London, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1985;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-576
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Context
Various similar designs featuring samples of precious foreign cloth or other antiquities are known, based on the early treatise on antiquities, the Soken kisho of 1781. This design was not identified in the Soken kisho, however. Kubota Shunman designed one such series entitled Famous Leathers, Ditto Medicine Cases, Netsuke, Meibutsu kawa onajiku inro onajiku netsuke (see Boisgirard2 and Ota3).
The artist
Masayuki was an occasional amateur designer, unless this is a name used by Ryuryukyo Shinsai.
Entry
Two samples of patterned cloth or leather, the circular piece on the right with a repeated hexagonal pattern called katsuragi, the square piece on the left: featuring a dragon on a gold ground.
Masayuki was the early name of Ryuryukyo Shinsai, later a student of Hokusai. It is difficult to establish if this is an early design by him that is still signed with his own name and not with Shinsai, his name as a print designer.
Two poems by ?ro? Uchichika and Shitaro Yoshiki(?).
Issued by the poets
Seal reading: Masayuki
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 14
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Masayuki, Samples of Patterned Cloth, Japan, 1796', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.422424
(accessed 20 September 2024 06:33:16).