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A Water Kettle on a Brazier
Shôtei Hokuju (mentioned on object), c. 1800 - c. 1805
Een stilleven van een koperen ketel op een houten stoof met daarnaast een mandje met houtskool. De prent is gedrukt op crêpe papier. Met twee gedichten.
- Artwork typeprint, surimono
- Object numberRP-P-1991-626
- Dimensionsheight 140 mm x width 180 mm
- Physical characteristicsnishikie, with metallic pigments
Identification
Title(s)
A Water Kettle on a Brazier
Object type
Object number
RP-P-1991-626
Description
Een stilleven van een koperen ketel op een houten stoof met daarnaast een mandje met houtskool. De prent is gedrukt op crêpe papier. Met twee gedichten.
Part of catalogue
Catalogue reference
- Forrer 134
- Goslings 33
Creation
Creation
- print maker: Shôtei Hokuju (mentioned on object), Japan
- dichter: Seiundai Shimokage (mentioned on object), Japan
- dichter: Karindô Itomichi (mentioned on object), Japan
Dating
c. 1800 - c. 1805
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Material and technique
Physical description
nishikie, with metallic pigments
Dimensions
height 140 mm x width 180 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
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1987;{Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 23, cat. no. 33} by whom donated to the museum, 1991
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Shôtei Hokuju
A Water Kettle on a Brazier
Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1805
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1987;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 23, cat. no. 33 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-626
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
The artist
Biography
Shotei Hokuju (b. 1763) was a pupil of Hokusai, and is probably best known for his landscape prints in Western style. He used the art-name Shotei.
Entry
A still life of a copper water kettle on a wooden brazier, a basket of charcoal beside it. The metal pokers stuck upright in the sand in the brazier.
The paper has been crêped, as sometimes occurred with surimono from the late 1790s and early 1800s (see RP-P-1991-469).
Two poems by Seiundai Shimokage and Karindo Itomichi [also Hagi no Itomichi or Mitsuhashi Itomichi, a judge of the Gogawa, living in Katsushika in Musashi Province].2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 18.
Issued by the poets
Signature reading: Hokuju ga
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 134
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Shôtei Hokuju, A Water Kettle on a Brazier, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1805', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200426477
(accessed 10 December 2025 09:32:51).Footnotes
- 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 23, cat. no. 33
- 2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 18.