The Maker of Court-caps

Hishikawa Sôri (mentioned on object), 1802

Een hofkappenmaker en een dame die met beide handen een hofkap (eboshi) ophoudt. De man heeft een gouden hofkap in een meer eenvoudige stijl voor zich. Met één gedicht.

  • Artwork typeprint, surimono
  • Object numberRP-P-1995-279
  • Dimensionsheight 135 mm x width 187 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

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Hishikawa Sôri

The Maker of Court-caps

Japan, Japan, 1802

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer Kunsthandel Huys den Esch, Dodewaard, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1992; 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 25, cat. no. 39 by whom donated to the museum, 1995

Object number: RP-P-1995-279

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

Context

This design was later reprinted as Plate 9 in the Kyoka Album - A Mirror of Craftsmen, Kyoka - Ehon shokunin kagami, of 1803.

The artist

Biography

Hishikawa Sori, previously Tawaraya Soji, also used the name Hyakurin, was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai, who received the name Sori (III) in 1798.

Entry

A woman kneeling by a seated courtier, a court-cap, eboshi, in her hands. The man has a gold-lacquered cap of a more simple type in front of him.

The Maker of Court-caps, Eboshiori, from the series The Thirty-six Poets as Craftsmen, Shokunin sanjurokkasen.
For general notes on the series, see RP-P-1999-235.

To the left the dating 'Beginning of the New Dog Year', Mizunoe inu [no] hatsuharu, i.e., 1802.

One poem by Hananotei Yaemata(?).

Issued by the Asakusagawa (also known as Tsubogawa)
Signature reading: Sori ga

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 117

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hishikawa Sôri, The Maker of Court-caps, Japan, 1802', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200382543

(accessed 29 November 2025 10:27:20).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 25, cat. no. 39