…; 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. 338d by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-257-4

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

This 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, i.e., 1850, contains works predominantly by Settan and other designers. For more prints from this album, see e.g., RP-P-1999-257-22.

A smoking set and a covered tea bowl on a stand placed on a bench covered with a red mat outside a teahouse.

One poem by Shu—tei —masu, with seal: Hana.

Issued by the poet
Signature reading: Kunisada ga, with Toshidama ring

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 206

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Utagawa (I) Kunisada, Smoking Set on Bench, Japan, c. 1810 - c. 1815', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200416120