Chick Hatching from an Egg

Hasegawa Settan (mentioned on object), 1813

Een kuiken probeert uit zijn al gebroken ei te komen. Twee haiku gedichten. Gemaakt voor het nieuwe jaar van de haan.

  • Artwork typeprint, surimono
  • Object numberRP-P-1999-257-21
  • Dimensionsheight 193 mm x width 139 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    Chick Hatching from an Egg

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-1999-257-21

  • Description

    Een kuiken probeert uit zijn al gebroken ei te komen. Twee haiku gedichten. Gemaakt voor het nieuwe jaar van de haan.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Forrer 52
    • Goslings 338-u

Creation

  • Creation

    printmaker: Hasegawa Settan (mentioned on object), Japan

  • Dating

    1813

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    nishikie

  • Dimensions

    height 193 mm x width 139 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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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. 46, cat. no. 338u} by whom donated to the museum, 1999

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Hasegawa Settan

Chick Hatching from an Egg

Japan, 1813

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. 46, cat. no. 338u by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-257-21

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 chick trying to get out of its already-broken egg.

The dating 'New Year of the Cock', Tori no haru, i.e., 1813, appears at top left.

Two haiku poems by Shun? and illegible.

Issued by the poets
Signature reading: Gangakusai Settan, with seal reading: Settan(?)

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 52

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hasegawa Settan, Chick Hatching from an Egg, Japan, 1813', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200416153

(accessed 18 April 2026 03:11:21).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 46, cat. no. 338u