Seated Woman with Pipe

Yashima Gakutei (mentioned on object), c. 1828

Een zittende courtisane. De pijp in haar hand en de bok op haar kimono zijn de attributen van de geluksgod Jurôjin. Met twee gedichten.

  • Artwork typeprint, surimono
  • Object numberRP-P-1991-551
  • Dimensionsheight 212 mm x width 189 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie, with metallic pigments

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    Seated Woman with Pipe

  • Series title(s)

    • Mitate shichifukujin
    • Een parodie op de zeven Goden van geluk

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-1991-551

  • Description

    Een zittende courtisane. De pijp in haar hand en de bok op haar kimono zijn de attributen van de geluksgod Jurôjin. Met twee gedichten.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Forrer 461
    • Goslings 13

Creation

  • Creation

    • printmaker: Yashima Gakutei (mentioned on object), Japan
    • poet: Ryûsanrô Okikaze (mentioned on object), Japan
    • poet: Yoshinoya Futuba (mentioned on object), Japan

  • Dating

    c. 1828

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    nishikie, with metallic pigments

  • Dimensions

    height 212 mm x width 189 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

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1984;{Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 15, cat. no. 13} by whom donated to the museum, 1991

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Yashima Gakutei

Seated Woman with Pipe

Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1828

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1984;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 15, cat. no. 13 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-551

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

Context

This surimono is mostly seen as one of four Meiji-period (1868-1912) facsimiles (cf. RP-P-1995-288). This is one of a few originals recorded.2Keyes, Roger S., The Art of Surimono. Privately Published Japanese Woodblock Prints and Books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 2 vols. London: Sotheby’s Publications, 1985, Appendix, p. 16. Other original impressions are recorded in the Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge; and the Rietberg Museum, Zurich.

The artist

Biography

Yashima Gakutei (1786?-1868), a pupil of Totoya Hokkei, was also strongly influenced by Katsushika Hokusai. He used the art-names Harunobu, Sadaoka and Yashima. In addition to his designs for surimono and kyoka collections - he was probably the most prolific designer in this genre – he was also a poet and writer as well as a great Sinologist.

Entry

A seated woman, her left hand resting on a long pipe. On her kimono a stag among flowers.

The God Jurojin, Juro, from the series A Parody on the Seven Gods of Good Fortune, Mitate shichifukujin.

The stag and the staff (represented here by the pipe the woman is holding) to which a scroll is tied are the usual attributes of the popular God of Fortune, Jurojin.

Two poems by Ryusanro Okikaze and Yoshinoya Futaba [also Rokudaen or Jushoken Futaba, a judge of the Gogawa, later also the owner of a brothel in the New Yoshiwara, d. 1858].3Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 191.

The first poem speaks of 'the First Writing of the New Year when the snow melts on the mountains in the south'.

Issued by the Shipporen
Signature reading: Gakutei

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 461

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Yashima Gakutei, Seated Woman with Pipe, Japan, c. 1828', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200426478

(accessed 31 January 2026 11:47:36).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 15, cat. no. 13
  • 2Keyes, Roger S., The Art of Surimono. Privately Published Japanese Woodblock Prints and Books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 2 vols. London: Sotheby’s Publications, 1985, Appendix, p. 16.
  • 3Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 191.