Object data
nishikie, with tsuyazuri
height 209 mm × width 182 mm
Madonoya
Japan, Japan, 1840
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, 1987;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-646
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Context
No other designs from this series of apparently annually published calendars - issued by Kitamado Umeyoshi(?) - have been identified.
For another surimono by this amateur designer, see:
A mounted painting of Mount Fuji [NME, leiden, 5474-1], featuring the emblem of Tsurunoya’s poetry circle.
The artist
Madonoya, also known as the poet Kitamado Umeyoshi, was an occasional amateur designer.
Entry
A circular cartouche with a portrait of a woman, a potted adonis at left.
This print is a picture calendar, egoyomi, for 1840, the numerals for the long and short months incorporated into the long inscription below the portrait. Moreover, the signature is preceded by the date ‘New Year of the Rat’, Kanoe ne no haru, i.e., 1840.
One poem by Umeyoshi [Tsuru no Hinako, or Kakushi, i.e., Kitamado Umeyoshi from osaka, a judge of the Gogawa, later Tsurunoya Osamaru II].2 Kitamado Umeyoshi, using the name Madonoya - from Kitamado - also seems to be the amateur designer of this print.
Print from an Annual Series of Calenders, Kotobushi daishotsukushi.
Issued by the poet
Signature reading: written and drawn by, Madonoya nobeta narabi egaku
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 599
Citation
(accessed 15 November 2024 04:31:05).