Woman Chopping Seaweed

Hasegawa Settan (mentioned on object), 1810

Een vrouw, gehurkt naast een plank die op twee emmers rust, snijdt zeewier met twee messen. Op haar rug een slapend kind. Gemaakt voor het nieuwe jaar van het paard.

Artwork typeprint, surimono
Object numberRP-P-1999-257-3
Dimensionsheight 184 mm x width 124 mm
Physical characteristicsnishikie

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Identification

Title(s)
Woman Chopping Seaweed
Object type
Object number
RP-P-1999-257-3
Description
Een vrouw, gehurkt naast een plank die op twee emmers rust, snijdt zeewier met twee messen. Op haar rug een slapend kind. Gemaakt voor het nieuwe jaar van het paard.
Part of catalogue
Catalogue reference
- Forrer 51
- Goslings 338-c

Creation

Creation
print maker: Hasegawa Settan (mentioned on object), Japan
Dating
1810
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Material and technique

Physical description
nishikie
Dimensions
height 184 mm x width 124 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.

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Subject

Acquisition and rights

Credit line
Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Acquisition
gift 1999
Copyright
Public domain
Provenance
…; collection Gasai Sadachika, Japan;…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1995;{Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 42, cat. no. 338c} by whom donated to the museum, 1999

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Hasegawa Settan

Woman Chopping Seaweed

Japan, 1810

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. 338c by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-257-3

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 woman squatting by a chopping board resting on two buckets, chopping seaweed with two knives. On her back a sleeping child.

The dating New Year of the Horse, Uma no toshi, i.e., 1810, appears at top left.

Two haiku poems by Shun? and illegible [Yanobo ?tai].

Issued by the poets
Signature reading: Settan, with seal reading: Gangaku

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 51

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hasegawa Settan, Woman Chopping Seaweed, Japan, 1810', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200416119

(accessed 11 December 2025 08:50:03).

Footnotes

¹Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 42, cat. no. 338c