The Rising Sun

Hasegawa Settan (mentioned on object), 1824

Een rood rijzende zon en een gedicht voor het nieuwe jaar van de aap, 1824.

  • Artwork typeprint, surimono
  • Object numberRP-P-1999-257-2
  • Dimensionsheight 176 mm x width 102 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    The Rising Sun

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-1999-257-2

  • Description

    Een rood rijzende zon en een gedicht voor het nieuwe jaar van de aap, 1824.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Goslings 338-b
    • Forrer 54

Creation

  • Creation

    printmaker: Hasegawa Settan (mentioned on object), Japan

  • Dating

    1824

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    nishikie

  • Dimensions

    height 176 mm x width 102 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. 42, cat. no. 338b} by whom donated to the museum, 1999

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Hasegawa Settan

The Rising Sun

Japan, 1824

Inscriptions

  • stamped: lower left, in red ink, rectangular seal of the printer, reading: surikō Kozen[sai]

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. 42, cat. no. 338b by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-257-2

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 rising red sun.

The dating New Year of the Monkey, Saru no toshi, i.e., 1824, appears at top left.

One anonymous poem, possibly by the designer.

Issued by the poet and the designer(?)
Signature reading: Settan, with circular seal reading: Gangaku
Printer: Kozen[sai]

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 54

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hasegawa Settan, The Rising Sun, Japan, 1824', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200416118

(accessed 7 March 2026 09:36:21).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 42, cat. no. 338b