Woman Walking Past a Fence

Shigenobu (II) (mentioned on object), c. 1825 - c. 1830

Een vrouw schuilt voor een regenbui onder een grote den. De regen is aangegeven in blinddruk. Met drie gedichten.

  • Artwork typeprint, surimono
  • Object numberRP-P-1991-455
  • Dimensionsheight 206 mm x width 183 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

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Yanagawa Shigenobu (II)

Woman Walking Past a Fence

Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1825 - c. 1830

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1983;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 39, cat. no. 76 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-455

Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

The artist

Biography

Yanagawa Shigenobu II (died after 1868), a pupil of Yanagawa Shigenobu, first used the name Shigeyama or, incorrectly often read as Juzan, and either took the name of his teacher after Shigenobu left for Osaka, or only after his death in 1833.

Entry

A woman walking past a fence on a rainy evening, a pine tree to the left.

Number Three: The Flower That Doesn't Speak, Sono san - Mono iwanu hana, from the series A Comparison of Flowers, Hana awase.

The title may refer to the woman's aversion to gossiping.

Three poems by Kakuyushi Kamemaru [Kano lists two poets named Kamemaru, both from Osaka, however],2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 50. ??tei Otone and Kayuen Nagafumi [also Kasuga, earlier Raryotei Sodehiko, a member of the Sugawararen, publishing from 1826].3Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 159.

Issued by the Sugawararen
Signature reading: Yanagawa Shigenobu, with seal: Yanagawa

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 377

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, ', Yanagawa (II) Shigenobu, Woman Walking Past a Fence, Japan, c. 1825 - c. 1830', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200473164

(accessed 30 December 2025 06:15:13).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 39, cat. no. 76
  • 2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 50.
  • 3Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 159.