Object data
nishikie, with blindprinting
height 133 mm × width 181 mm
Teisai Hokuba
Court Ladies Viewing a Painting
Japan, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1805
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Kunsthandel Huys den Esch, Dodewaard, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1985;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-578
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Context
For general notes on the series, see RP-P-1995-278.
The artist
Teisai Hokuba (1771-1844) was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai. He used the art-name Teisai. There also seems to have been a Hokuba II.
Entry
Two ladies holding up a painting of wisteria for a court-lady seated to the right on a pile of cushions. A curtain at right.
Fujiwara no Junshi, Gojogo, from A Collection of Famous Paintings in the 'Feminine' Style, Meihitsu onnae soroi.
Fujiwara no Junshi (809-71), also known as Gojo nyogo, was the wife of Emperor Ninmyo (r. 833-50).
Onnae actually refers to a style of painting with thickly layered pigment as opposed to the calligraphic otokoe style.
One poem by Senroan Yafuji.
The poem refers to a painting contest, eawase.
Issued by an unidentified poetry club
Signature reading: Hokuba ga
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 127
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Teisai Hokuba, Court Ladies Viewing a Painting, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1805', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.422452
(accessed 16 May 2024 04:50:36).