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Woman Feeding a Baby
Hishikawa Sôri (mentioned on object), 1804
Een vrouw voedt een baby, een dienstmeisje slijpt een mes, en een jongetje met een zwarte ketel. Met drie gedichten.
- Artwork typeprint, surimono
- Object numberRP-P-1991-621
- Dimensionsheight 135 mm x width 181 mm
- Physical characteristicsnishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting
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Identification
Title(s)
Woman Feeding a Baby
Series title(s)
- De ratten bruiloft
- Nezumi no yomeiri (series title on object)
Object type
Object number
RP-P-1991-621
Series number
11/12
Description
Een vrouw voedt een baby, een dienstmeisje slijpt een mes, en een jongetje met een zwarte ketel. Met drie gedichten.
Inscriptions / marks
stamp, verso, stamped: Paper crane.
Part of catalogue
Catalogue reference
- Goslings 125
- Forrer 119
Creation
Creation
- printmaker: Hishikawa Sôri (mentioned on object), Japan
- poet: Senhôshû Ashiyuki (mentioned on object), Japan
- poet: Wakaiki Hayanaga (mentioned on object), Japan
- poet: Shinratei Manzô (mentioned on object), Japan
Dating
1804
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Material and technique
Physical description
nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting
Dimensions
height 135 mm x width 181 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
Provenance
…; the dealer Japanese Gallery, Londen (collector`s mark);...; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1986;{Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 57, cat. no. 125} by whom donated to the museum, 1991
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Hishikawa Sôri
Woman Feeding a Baby
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan, 1804
Inscriptions
stamped on verso with mark of a paper crane (Japanese Gallery)
Provenance
…; the dealer Japanese Gallery, Londen (collector`s mark);...; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1986;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 57, cat. no. 125 by whom donated to the museum, 1991
Object number: RP-P-1991-621
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Context
Nine designs in this series are presently known, one of them in an album of surimono made in 1804, now in the British Museum, London. It has not been possible, however, to identify all of them by their title.
For others of the series, see:
No. 3: Kekkon2Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum. Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku. Ukiyoe hangahen, 3 vols. Tokyo: Tokyo Bijutsu, 1974, 3721.
No. ?: Dogu3Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum. Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku. Ukiyoe hangahen, 3 vols. Tokyo: Tokyo Bijutsu, 1974, 3723.
No. 7: Kashiire4Fujisawa Morihiko korekushon surimono o chuushin to shite (The Fujisawa Morihiko Collection: with a Stress on Surimono) Tokyo: Ota Memorial Museum of Art, 1998, p. 146.
No. 10: Ironaoshi5Boisgirard, Claude and Axel de Heeckeren, Très importante collection de 750 surimono, de calendriers, de nagaye, et d’oban. Paris, Drouot, 12-15 décembre 1977. Paris: 1977, p. 324.
The artist
Biography
Hishikawa Sori, previously Tawaraya Soji, also used the name Hyakurin, was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai, who received the name Sori (III) in 1798.
Entry
An interior scene with a woman breastfeeding a baby, a maidservant sharpening a razor on a whetstone at left. To the right, a young boy holding a black-lacquered ewer stands by a water basin.
Number Eleven- The First Childbirth, Juichi - Hatsuzan, from the series The Rats' Wedding - A Series of Twelve Prints, Nezumi no yomeiri - Junimaitsuzuki.
Three poems by Senhoshu Ashiyuki(?), Wakaiki Hayanaga and Shinratei Manzo [I, 1754-1809, first a pupil of Hiraga Gennai, taking the name Furai Sanjin II, and later, from the 1780s, taking the names Morishima Churyo and Manzotei].6Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 216.
The theme of this series, 'The Rats' Wedding', is of unknown origin, possibly even dating back to the Muromachi period (1392-1573). Produced in book format, it was a popular story for children, the first examples dating from around the late 17th- and early 18th centuries. As a series of single prints, it was probably first treated by Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814).
Issued by the Manjiren
Signature reading: Hishikawa Sori ga
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 119
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hishikawa Sôri, Woman Feeding a Baby, Japan, 1804', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200467468
(accessed 2 March 2026 18:30:01).Footnotes
- 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 57, cat. no. 125
- 2Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum. Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku. Ukiyoe hangahen, 3 vols. Tokyo: Tokyo Bijutsu, 1974, 3721.
- 3Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum. Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku. Ukiyoe hangahen, 3 vols. Tokyo: Tokyo Bijutsu, 1974, 3723.
- 4Fujisawa Morihiko korekushon surimono o chuushin to shite (The Fujisawa Morihiko Collection: with a Stress on Surimono) Tokyo: Ota Memorial Museum of Art, 1998, p. 146.
- 5Boisgirard, Claude and Axel de Heeckeren, Très importante collection de 750 surimono, de calendriers, de nagaye, et d’oban. Paris, Drouot, 12-15 décembre 1977. Paris: 1977, p. 324.
- 6Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 216.