Young Boy Reading a Scroll Held by an Old Man, Yanagawa Shigenobu (II), 1829

Title(s)

Young Boy Reading a Scroll Held by an Old Man

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1999-249

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 375
• Goslings 328

Description

Sôjôbô, de koning van de mythische bergwezens, houdt een rol papier vast. Hij buigt zich over de schrijvende Ushiwakamaru, de kindernaam van de legendarische krijger Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159-1189). Bij nacht, met een zilveren maan op de achtergrond. Met zes gedichten op de rol

Artist

• print maker: Yanagawa Shigenobu (II) (mentioned on object)
• Naone (mentioned on object)
• Naoo (mentioned on object)
• Yoshio (mentioned on object)
• Shiragi (mentioned on object)
• Tsukio (mentioned on object)
• Higashio (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

1829

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 169 mm × width 207 mm

What

• scroll
• reading
• human beings (legendary or not) of abnormal proportions, size, strength, etc.

Credit line

• Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

Acquisition

gift 1999

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 206, cat.nr. 375
• Surimono : schenking Goslings 1999 deel 2, J.H.W. Goslings, J.H.W. Goslings, p. 12, cat.nr. 328
• Surimono : poetry and image in Japanese prints, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Lee Bruschke-Johnson, cat.nr. 95
• Surimono : [Richard Kruml], Richard Kruml, dl. 23, cat.nr. 76