Plum Tree

Hasegawa Settan (mentioned on object), c. 1800 - c. 1805

Bloeiende pruimenboom; met 11 haiku gedichten.

  • Artwork typeprint, surimono
  • Object numberRP-P-1999-257-16
  • Dimensionsheight 178 mm x width 309 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie

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Hasegawa Settan

Plum Tree

Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1805

Provenance

…; collection Gasai Sadachika, Japan;…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1995;1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 45, cat. no. 338p by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-257-16

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

Context

This print was preserved in an album apparently compiled by Gasai Sadachika at the age of 67 in the autumn of the Year of the Dog in the Kaei period, Kanoe inu, 1850, containing works predominantly by Settan and other designers. For more prints from this album, see e.g. RP-P-1999-257-1.

The artist

Biography

Hasegawa Settan (1778–1843), a pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni, was probably best known for his illustrations to the Illustrated Famous Places of Edo, Edo meisho zue (1834/1836), and the Annual Events in the Eastern Capital, Toto saijiki (1832). He received the honorary rank of hokkyo in about 1824.

Entry

A blossoming plum tree.

Eleven haiku poems by Hokuriku [Hasegawa] Settan [i.e., the designer, 1778-1843], Shitai, Ikkei and others.

Issued by the poets
Signature reading: Settan, with two illegible seals

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 49

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hasegawa Settan, Plum Tree, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1805', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200416149

(accessed 8 December 2025 22:53:28).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 45, cat. no. 338p