Court Lady Holding a Fan

Katsushika Hokutai (mentioned on object), c. 1815 - c. 1820

Links een gedichtenstrook (tanzaku) waarop een hofdame in fraaie kimono is afgebeeld. Daarbinnen een tweede tanzaku met een gedicht. In het rechtervak, tussen de kersenbloesem, eveneens een gedicht.

  • Artwork typeprint, surimono
  • Object numberRP-P-1991-468
  • Dimensionsheight 198 mm x width 174 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie, with metallic pigments

Katsushika Hokutai

Court Lady Holding a Fan

Japan, c. 1815 - c. 1820

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. 27, cat. no. 45 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-468

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


The artist

Biography

Katsushika Hokutai was a follower of Katsushika Hokusai, and used the names Katsushika, Eisai, Shinshinshi and Raito.


Entry

A court lady in elaborate clothing, an open fan in her hand, against a dark ground in a vertical panel at left. To the right a poetry-slip decorated with plum blossoms.

The composition actually represents a combination of the two most frequently used sheets of paper for writing poetry, a shikishi to the right, a tanzaku at left. The poem on the left is inscribed on a miniature tanzaku poetry-slip.

Two poems by —shutei Unumichi and —(?).

Issued by the poets
Signature reading: Shinshinshi Hokutai


Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 351


Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Katsushika Hokutai, Court Lady Holding a Fan, Japan, c. 1815 - c. 1820', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200482859

(accessed 8 December 2025 08:00:20).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 27, cat. no. 45