…; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1983;¹¹Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 42, cat. no. 85 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-467

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

The Sazaigai is Number 12 in Oeda Ryuho's A Series of Shells as Brocade of the Coast, Kaitsukushi ura no nishiki, of 1749.

For general notes on the series, see RP-P-1991-561.

A young boy mooring a boat to a pole on the riverbank while his mother watches him. A heron nesting on the roof of a temple seen across rice fields.

The Turban Shell, Sadae (Turbo [Batillus] cornutus Solander), from the series A Matching Game of Poems, Kasen awase.

The 'Turban Shell', or sazae or sadae, as it is written here, is associated with the name of the Sazaido, the hall of the Temple of Five Hundred Rakan, Gohyakurakando, on the eastern bank of the Sumida River in Edo. This hall featured a spiral staircase reminiscent of the interior of a Turban shell and was therefore popularly known as Sazaido. In fact, the temple seen in the distance in this design is this hall. A similar association can be found in Hokusai's series A Matching Game with the Genroku Poem Shells, Genroku kasen kaiawase, of 1821 (e.g. RP-P-1963-26).

Two poems by —juan Tsurihito [or Tsurindo], and 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].²²Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 214.

Both poems refer to the Sazaido, the temple in the distance.

Issued by the Yomogawa
Signature reading: Shinsai ga

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 157

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Ryûryûkyo Shinsai, Mooring a Boat, Japan, 1809', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200467485