Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments
height 140 mm × width 180 mm
Shôtei Hokuju
A Water Kettle on a Brazier
Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1805
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1987;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-626
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Shotei Hokuju (b. 1763) was a pupil of Hokusai, and is probably best known for his landscape prints in Western style. He used the art-name Shotei.
Entry
A still life of a copper water kettle on a wooden brazier, a basket of charcoal beside it. The metal pokers stuck upright in the sand in the brazier.
The paper has been crêped, as sometimes occurred with surimono from the late 1790s and early 1800s (see RP-P-1991-469).
Two poems by Seiundai Shimokage and Karindo Itomichi [also Hagi no Itomichi or Mitsuhashi Itomichi, a judge of the Gogawa, living in Katsushika in Musashi Province].2
Issued by the poets
Signature reading: Hokuju ga
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 134
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Shôtei Hokuju, A Water Kettle on a Brazier, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1805', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.377893
(accessed 23 November 2024 13:52:40).