Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting
height 211 mm × width 280 mm
Yashima Gakutei
Page-girl Offering Clothes to a Lady
Japan, Japan, c. 1830
Inscriptions
- collector's mark, recto, stamped
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Kunstauktionshaus August Bödiger, Bonn, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1990;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-712
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Yashima Gakutei (1786?-1868), a pupil of Totoya Hokkei, was also strongly influenced by Katsushika Hokusai. He used the art-names Harunobu, Sadaoka and Yashima. In addition to his designs for surimono and kyoka collections - he was probably the most prolific designer in this genre – he was also a poet and writer as well as a great Sinologist.
Entry
A page-girl offering a folded kimono on a lacquer tray to a court lady holding a book and seated behind a curtain, a book cart beside her.
This could be an album-leaf rather than a single-sheet surimono, although it should be noted that Suga2 lists no folding albums, orihon, by Gakutei.
Two poems by Wagunkyo Nagaki [also Akiyo Nagaki, or Waichien],3 and Chofuken [Fukunami].
Both poems allude to the sense of 'being wrapped in happiness when putting on the first clothes of the New Year'.
Issued by the poets
Signature reading: Gakutei
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 177
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Yashima Gakutei, Page-girl Offering Clothes to a Lady, Japan, c. 1830', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.363078
(accessed 10 November 2024 09:40:33).