Object data
nishikie
height 167 mm × width 134 mm
Ransei
New Year's Dancers
Japan, Japan, 1804
Provenance
…; collection Gasai Sadachika, Japan;…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1995;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1999
Object number: RP-P-1999-257-11
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Two New Year's dancers near the seasonal decorations of pine and bamboo, one holding a small drum, the other with a small cap and fan.
Three haiku poems on various seasonal topics by Kyukyutei Amadani.
This print was preserved in an album apparently compiled by Gasai Sadachika at the age of 67, in the Autumn of the Year of the Dog in the Kaei period, Kanoe inu, i.e., 1850, containing works predominantly by Settan and other designers. For more prints from this album, e.g.
RP-P-1999-257-20.
Issued by the poet
Signature reading: Ransei ga
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 182
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Ransei, New Year's Dancers, Japan, 1804', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.363583
(accessed 22 September 2024 21:25:15).