…; purchased from the dealer Kunsthandel Huys den Esch, Dodewaard, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1986;¹¹Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 68, cat. no. 153 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-608

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

A bow-and-arrow stand, hamayumi, with a starfish-patterned cloth tied around the top and, to the left, a child's toy shaped as a kabuki actor in a Shibaraku role.

Simple articulated toys such as this, which worked by pulling a small stick, were popular souvenirs bought during temple visits. The uncomplicated design suggests that it is the work of the poet.

One poem by Kikusuitei Kurando on the hamayumi, the ritual exorcism bow, and the 'piling up of the years'. Kano lists a certain Izutei Kurando, also known as Goyuken, a gesaku writer who died in 1817.²²Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 71. It is difficult to establish if he is the same poet.

Issued by the poet
Unsigned

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 26

M. Forrer, 2013, 'anonymous, A Bow and Arrow Stand and a Toy, Japan, c. 1790 - c. 1800', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200467452