…; collection Gasai Sadachika, Japan;…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1995;¹¹Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 42, cat. no. 338a by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-257-1

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

This print was preserved in an album apparently compiled by Gasai Sadachika at the age of 67 in the autumn of the Year of the Dog in the Kaei period, Kanoe inu, 1850, containing works predominantly by Settan and other designers. For more prints from this album, see e.g. RP-P-1999-257-1.

A toy monkey, probably an earthenware figurine. The print, in addition to showing the image of a monkey, is also dated 'New Monkey Year', Saru no toshi no haru, i.e., 1836.

Four haiku poems: two by Ushi?, and two by Ushinaga.

Issued by the poets
Signature reading: hokkyo Settan no zu, with seal: Gangaku

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 59

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hasegawa Settan, A Toy Monkey, Japan, 1836', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200413952