Court Lady with Branch of Plum

Teisai Hokuba (mentioned on object), c. 1810 - c. 1820

Een hofdame houdt een pruimenbloesemtak vast. Een meisje knielt voor haar, achter haar is een jonge diender te zien. Met vier gedichten.

  • Artwork typeprint, surimono
  • Object numberRP-P-1991-711
  • Dimensionsheight 208 mm x width 272 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    Court Lady with Branch of Plum

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-1991-711

  • Description

    Een hofdame houdt een pruimenbloesemtak vast. Een meisje knielt voor haar, achter haar is een jonge diender te zien. Met vier gedichten.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Forrer 128
    • Goslings 26

Creation

  • Creation

    • printmaker: Teisai Hokuba (mentioned on object), Japan
    • poet: Kokôrô Fujimaro (mentioned on object), Japan
    • poet: Koenrô Kiraku (mentioned on object), Japan
    • poet: Konandô Yamasumi (mentioned on object), Japan
    • poet: Asakusaan (mentioned on object), Japan

  • Dating

    c. 1810 - c. 1820

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

  • Dimensions

    height 208 mm x width 272 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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  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

  • Acquisition

    gift 1991

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; purchased from the dealer Kunstauktionshaus August Bödiger, Bonn, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1990;{Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 21, cat. no. 26} by whom donated to the museum, 1991

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Teisai Hokuba

Court Lady with Branch of Plum

Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1810 - c. 1820

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer Kunstauktionshaus August Bödiger, Bonn, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1990;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 21, cat. no. 26 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-711

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

The artist

Biography

Teisai Hokuba (1771-1844) was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai. He used the art-name Teisai. There also seems to have been a Hokuba II.

Entry

A court lady holding a branch of plum blossoms. Another lady kneeling down in front of her, a page-boy partly visible behind the standing lady.

Four poems by Kokoro Fujimaro, from Sendai, Koenro Kiraku, Konanro Yamasumi (but Konando in RP-P-1958-325), and Asakusaan [Ichindo I, 1755-1821, a leader of the Asakusagawa (also known as Tsubogawa)].2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 16.

Hokuba collaborated frequently with the Asakusagawa, RP-P-1991-711 being an early example of a commission by individual members instead of a whole club. This print is another such example. Later, more specifically in 1820, 1823 and 1824, he was contracted as a designer for editions appearing under the emblem of this group, which sometimes also operated under the name Tsubogawa.

Issued by followers of the poet Asakusaan Ichindo
Signature reading: Teisai Hokuba ga

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 128

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Teisai Hokuba, Court Lady with Branch of Plum, Japan, c. 1810 - c. 1820', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200426480

(accessed 29 January 2026 18:34:45).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 21, cat. no. 26
  • 2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 16.