Hasegawa Settan

A Toy Monkey

Japan, Japan, 1836

Provenance

…; collection Gasai Sadachika, Japan;…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1995;1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 42, cat. no. 338a by whom donated to the museum, 1999

ObjectNumber: RP-P-1999-257-1

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

Context

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.

The artist

Biography

Hasegawa Settan (1778–1843), a pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni, was probably best known for his illustrations to the Illustrated Famous Places of Edo, Edo meisho zue (1834/1836), and the Annual Events in the Eastern Capital, Toto saijiki (1832). He received the honorary rank of hokkyo in about 1824.

Entry

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

Literature

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

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hasegawa Settan, A Toy Monkey, Japan, 1836', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.359753

(accessed 9 June 2025 09:08:21).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 42, cat. no. 338a