…; purchased from the dealer Bernard Haase, London, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1999;¹¹Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 8, cat. no. 318 by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-240

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

A pile of six large sake barrels with a New Year's decoration attached. In the foreground a table with a large brazier, a pipe in its case and a tobacco pouch.

The inscriptions on the bottom row of the sake barrels read Hakujuen, the name of the poet on this print. The first character is written to resemble a shop-sign, possibly indicating that he was a sake merchant. Two characters on the middle row read as Noda, the town where he lived, the province Shimosa indicated on the top barrel. The large dragon on the brazier refers to the New Dragon Year.

One poem by Hakujuen Hiroyoshi [earlier Hakujuen Senko, later Hakkosha Hiroyoshi, a judge of the Shoritsuen poetry club; he lived in Noda in Shimosa Province].²²Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 189. The poem is a conventional New Year's poem.

Issued by the poet
Signature reading: on request, motome ni ojite Hokkei ga

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 346

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Totoya Hokkei, Brazier and Piled Up Sake Barrels, Japan, 1832', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200413475