Object data
nishikie
height 181 mm × width 91 mm
anonymous
A Lobster
Japan, c. 1810 - c. 1820
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-1999-257-5
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
The feeler of a large lobster with seaweed hanging from it, and two of its legs.
The design was printed without using a line-block. It could be part of a larger print, although the designer's seal is in a quite normal position.
Three haiku poems by Shi—do Gaga—.
This print is from the same album as RP-P-1999-257-11.
Issued by the poet
Seal reading: —ka
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 184
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'anonymous, A Lobster, Japan, c. 1810 - c. 1820', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200416122
(accessed 10 December 2025 11:18:55).