Greens in a Straw Container

Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object), 1818

Een gevlochten mandje in de vorm van een kolf is gevuld met waarschijnlijk radijsjes. Met één gedicht.

  • Artwork typeprint, surimono
  • Object numberRP-P-1991-557
  • Dimensionsheight 96 mm x width 132 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    Greens in a Straw Container

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-1991-557

  • Description

    Een gevlochten mandje in de vorm van een kolf is gevuld met waarschijnlijk radijsjes. Met één gedicht.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    stamp, verso, stamped: Paper crane.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Forrer 129
    • Goslings 18

Creation

  • Creation

    • printmaker: Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object), Japan
    • poet: Kitsuneen (mentioned on object), Japan

  • Dating

    1818

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    nishikie

  • Dimensions

    height 96 mm x width 132 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 1991

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; the dealer Japanese Gallery, Londen (collector`s mark);...; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1984;{Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 17, cat. no. 18} by whom donated to the museum, 1991

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Totoya Hokkei

Greens in a Straw Container

Japan, Japan, 1818

Inscriptions

  • stamped on verso with mark of a paper crane (Japanese Gallery)

Provenance

…; the dealer Japanese Gallery, Londen (collector`s mark);...; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1984;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 17, cat. no. 18 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-557

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

Context

For a much earlier design by Hokkei, dated to 1809, see Mirviss & Carpenter,2Mirviss, Joan B. and John T. Carpenter, The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono. New York: Weatherhill; Phoenix, Ariz.: Phoenix Art Museum, 1995, p. 93. and Keyes,3Keyes, Roger S., Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Prints in the Spencer Museum of Art. Tokyo/New York: Kodansha International Ltd., 1984, pp. 11-12. for two designs from 1811.

The artist

Biography

Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai, although he was first trained in the Kano painting tradition and used the art-names Kyosai and Aoigaoka. He was one of the most prolific designers of surimono in the 1820s and early 1830s, and also illustrated numerous collections of kyoka poetry.

Entry

A straw container with green buds, possibly horseradish, two of which are beside it.

The print is dated at left 'New Tiger Year', Tsuchinoe tora no haru, i.e., 1818, thus representing the earliest datable design by Hokkei in this collection.

One poem by Kitsuneen

Issued by the poet
Signature reading: Hokkei, with seal: Iwa(?)

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 129

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Totoya Hokkei, Greens in a Straw Container, Japan, 1818', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200467473

(accessed 18 April 2026 02:38:14).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 17, cat. no. 18
  • 2Mirviss, Joan B. and John T. Carpenter, The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono. New York: Weatherhill; Phoenix, Ariz.: Phoenix Art Museum, 1995, p. 93.
  • 3Keyes, Roger S., Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Prints in the Spencer Museum of Art. Tokyo/New York: Kodansha International Ltd., 1984, pp. 11-12.