Pine Trees

Hasegawa Settan (mentioned on object), 1836

Een pluimbal tussen de naalden van een pijnboom; met drie haiku gedichten. De pijnboom is een Nieuwjaarssymbool in Japan, en ook de pluimbal verwijst daarnaar; 'pluimbal', een soort badminton, werd traditiegetrouw met Nieuwjaar gespeeld.

  • Artwork typeprint, surimono
  • Object numberRP-P-1999-257-18
  • Dimensionsheight 189 mm x width 186 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie

Hasegawa Settan

Pine Trees

Japan, 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. 45, cat. no. 338r by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-257-18

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 shuttlecock has landed on the needles of a pine tree.

The print is dated at left: Tenpo 7, 1836.

Three haiku poems by Sennosuke, Takesaburo and Sui?en Harutani.

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


Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 60


Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hasegawa Settan, Pine Trees, Japan, 1836', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200416150

(accessed 8 December 2025 15:19:53).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 45, cat. no. 338r