A Turner and His Assistant

Hishikawa Sôri (mentioned on object), 1802

Een draaier zittend naast een draaibank (rokuro) waarmee deksels voor kommen gemaakt worden. Zijn assistente gebruikt touwen om de bank te draaien. Met drie gedichten.

  • Artwork typeprint, surimono
  • Object numberRP-P-1999-235
  • Dimensionsheight 134 mm x width 189 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    A Turner and His Assistant

  • Series title(s)

    • De zesendertig dichters als ambachtslieden
    • Shokunin sanjûrokuban (series title on object)

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-1999-235

  • Description

    Een draaier zittend naast een draaibank (rokuro) waarmee deksels voor kommen gemaakt worden. Zijn assistente gebruikt touwen om de bank te draaien. Met drie gedichten.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Goslings 323
    • Forrer 116

Creation

  • Creation

    • printmaker: Hishikawa Sôri (mentioned on object), Japan
    • poet: Itaya Munenari (mentioned on object), Japan
    • poet: Ôsentei Chikamura (mentioned on object), Japan
    • poet: Kôsentei Takatatsu (mentioned on object), Japan

  • Dating

    1802

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

  • Dimensions

    height 134 mm x width 189 mm

Explanatory note

  • Een surimono is een luxe uitgevoerde prent waarop beeld met één of meerdere gedichten gecombineerd is. Bij het drukken van een surimono werd vaak gebruik gemaakt van dikker papier, blinddruk en metaal pigmenten, zoals koper- en zilverpoeder. De prenten werden vaak in opdracht van dichters gemaakt en als exclusief geschenk aan vrienden en relaties gegeven.

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

  • Acquisition

    gift 1999

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1997;{Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 10, cat. no. 323} by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Documentation

    • Kokusho somokuroku (General Catalogue of National Books), 8 vols., Tokyo 1963-1977, vol. IV, p. of cat.nr. 540.
    • Masterpieces of Ukiyoe from the Pulverer Collection (Doitsu Puruveraaa korekushon ukiyoe hanga meihinten), Tokyo 1990, dl. 3, cat.nr. 44.

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Hishikawa Sôri

A Turner and His Assistant

Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan, 1802

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1997;1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 10, cat. no. 323 by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-235

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

Context

This large series of surimono on the theme of craftsmen combined with women, representing the classical selection of the Thirty-six Poets, Sanjurokkasen, has two series-titles, both appearing as a hand-stamped seal on the prints. Most of the designs have the title Shokunin sanjurokuban RP-P-1995-279, but a few have Shokunin sanjurokkasen. Originally issued for the New Dog Year 1802, the series was reissued in a slightly different form in an album for the next year, 1803, under the title Kyoka Album - A Mirror of Craftsmen, Kyoka - Ehon shokunin kagami. It was indicated in the album that the verses were selected by Asakusaan Ichindo (Asakusaan I, a leader of the Asakusagawa [also known as Tsubogawa], 1755-1820), who also contributed the preface. It was issued by Tsutaya Jusaburo of Edo. Another single-sheet edition in the same format as the album and with the poetry in the same handwriting appears to have been issued again later (cf. RP-P-1991-642).

The artist

Biography

Hishikawa Sori, previously Tawaraya Soji, also used the name Hyakurin, was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai, who received the name Sori (III) in 1798.

Entry

A turner seated at a lathe, rokuro, making lids for bowls while his female assistant operates the tool. Finished lids and a chisel beside him on the floor.

The Turner, Hikimonoshi, from the series The Thirty-six Poets as Craftsmen, Shokunin sanjurokuban.

The dating 'Beginning of the New Dog Year', Mizunoe inu no hatsuharu, i.e., 1802, is printed at left.

This design was later reprinted in the kyoka album Ehon shokunin kagami of 1803 as Plate I.

Three poems by Itaya Munenari from Shimodate in Hitachi Province, Osentei Chikamura and Kosentei Takatatsu. The two last poems allude to turnery work, hikimono saiku.

Issued by the Asakusagawa (also known as Tsubogawa)
Signature reading: Sori ga

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 116

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hishikawa Sôri, A Turner and His Assistant, Japan, 1802', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200413485

(accessed 2 March 2026 20:11:36).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 10, cat. no. 323