Boy on a Hobby-horse

…; purchased from the dealer Kunsthandel Huys den Esch, Dodewaard, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer;¹¹Coll. cat. Goslings 1991 en 1995, p. 97, cat. no. 164 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

ObjectNumber: RP-P-1991-607

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

A number of designs for 1786 as well as for other Horse Years in the early period include hobby-horses. For other examples of egoyomi for the same year, 1786, see designs by Koryusai²²Keyes, Roger S., The Art of Surimono. Privately Published Japanese Woodblock Prints and Books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 2 vols. London: Sotheby’s Publications, 1985, pp. 217-218. and Shigemasa, signed Karan.³³Ibid., pp. 262-263.

A page boy in court-dress riding a hobby-horse. His long loose hair, clothing, and court-cap, eboshi, identify him as a court page. This print is a picture calendar, egoyomi, for the New Horse Year 1786, the numerals for the long months, 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 11, shown in reserve on his kimono.

Issued anonymously
Unsigned

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 5

M. Forrer, 2013, 'anonymous, Boy on a Hobby-horse, Japan, 1786', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.363071