Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting (on the hashira)
height 208 mm × width 96 mm
anonymous
New Year's Arrangement with a Tiger
Japan, Japan, 1806
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Hasegawa, Japan, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1994;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1995
Object number: RP-P-1995-302
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Context
The poet Asakuraan commissioned a design from Shunman for the New Hare Year 1807.2
Entry
An alcove, tokonoma, decorated in anticipation of the New Year with slips of paper, ferns, urajiro, and another leaf attached to a string and hung from the pillar, hashira, at back left. A poem inscribed as a calligraphy on a hanging-scroll. Before it, on a small lacquered stand, a bronze figurine of a seated tiger.
The tiger refers to the zodiacal animal for the New Tiger Year 1806. This print also serves as a picture calendar, egoyomi, giving the long months of the year, 1, 2, 4, intercalary month, uru 8, and 10, in red, as if they were symbols giving the reading of uncommon characters, furigana, alongside the poem and its introduction.
One poem by Asakuraan [Hashi no Sansho, a judge of the Tsubogawa],3 with a written seal, kakihan.
Issued by the poet
Unsigned
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 195
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'anonymous, New Year's Arrangement with a Tiger, Japan, 1806', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.318717
(accessed 23 November 2024 10:07:58).