A Toy Cock

Hasegawa Settan (mentioned on object), 1825

Speelgoed haan met bamboe handvat, waarschijnlijk als fluitje gebruikt. Twee haiku gedichten.

  • Artwork typeprint, surimono
  • Object numberRP-P-1999-257-7
  • Dimensionsheight 185 mm x width 112 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    A Toy Cock

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-1999-257-7

  • Description

    Speelgoed haan met bamboe handvat, waarschijnlijk als fluitje gebruikt. Twee haiku gedichten.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Forrer 55
    • Goslings 338-g

Creation

  • Creation

    • printmaker: Hasegawa Settan (mentioned on object), Japan
    • poet: Hasegawa Settan (mentioned on object), Japan
    • poet: Hôhô Ippai (mentioned on object), Japan

  • Dating

    1825

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    nishikie

  • Dimensions

    height 185 mm x width 112 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 1999

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; collection Gasai Sadachika, Japan;…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1995;{Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 43, cat. no. 338g} by whom donated to the museum, 1999

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Hasegawa Settan

A Toy Cock

Japan, Japan, Japan, 1825

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. 43, cat. no. 338g by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-257-7

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 toy cock with a bamboo handle, possibly a whistle.

Two haiku poems by [Hasegawa] Settan [i.e., the designer, 1778-1843], and Hoho lppai.

Issued by the poets
Signature reading: hokkyo Settan no zu, with illegible seal

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 55

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hasegawa Settan, A Toy Cock, Japan, 1825', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200416123

(accessed 7 March 2026 09:36:22).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 43, cat. no. 338g