Object data
nishikie
height 180 mm × width 168 mm
Seiseikyo Ryûshi
Flowering Plants
Japan, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1810
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-1999-257-13
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Seiseikyo Ryushi was an occasional amateur designer.
Entry
A few flowering plants including ominaeshi (Patrinia scabiosifolia) at right, the others unidentified.
The leaves of the plants have been printed without the use of a line-block.
One poem by Yomo [no Utagaki] Magao [1753-1829, Shikatsube Magao, pupil of Yomo Akara. Used the name 'Yomo' from 1796, when he became a judge of the Yomogawa. Alternative name Kyokado].2
This print is from the same album as RP-P-1999-257-11.
Issued by the poet
Signature reading: Seiseikyo Ryushi ga, with seal; Ryushi
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 183
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Seiseikyo Ryûshi, Flowering Plants, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1810', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.363631
(accessed 23 November 2024 21:08:19).