Twee vrouwen op een veranda

Katsushika Hokusai (vermeld op object), ca. 1799

Een zittende en een staande vrouw op een veranda. De theepot bevat gekruide sake, die traditiegetrouw tijdens Nieuwjaar werd gedronken. Op de achtergrond een tak pruimenbloesem met hierop een nachtegaal als nieuwjaarssymbool. Met twee gedichten.

  • Soort kunstwerkprent, surimono
  • ObjectnummerRP-P-1991-566
  • Afmetingenblad: hoogte 131 mm x breedte 181 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenkleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken; metaalpigmenten

Katsushika Hokusai

Two Women on the Veranda

Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1799

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer Kunsthandel Huys den Esch, Dodewaard, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1985;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 23, cat. no. 34 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-566

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


The artist

Biography

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) first studied with Katsukawa Shunsho but later developed his own style. He was occasionally influenced by various other traditions, and designed thousands of calendar prints and surimono from 1787 until about 1810. His surimono production diminished in the 1810s but he resumed his former output between 1321 and 1825. He is best known for his landscape prints of the 1830s.


Entry

A woman sitting on the veranda of a house looks into the garden, her attention apparently drawn by the nightingale, uguisu, seated on a branch of blossoming plum. Another woman standing next to her holds a kettle of spiced sake, tosasake, traditionally drunk at New Year.

Two poems by Yamaga Sarumen and Yomo [no Utagaki] Magao [1753-1829, Shikatsube Magao, pupil of Yomo Akara. Used the name 'Yomo' from 1796, when he became a judge of the Yomogawa. Alternative name Kyokado].2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 214.

The poet Sarumen is also recorded as the commissioner - and was possibly also the designer - of another surimono in this collection (cf. RP-P-1991-635).

Issued by a follower of the poet Yomo Magao
Signature reading: Sori aratame (changed his name to) Hokusai ga


Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 93


Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Katsushika Hokusai, Two Women on the Veranda, Japan, c. 1799', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200467464

(accessed 10 December 2025 12:39:16).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 23, cat. no. 34
  • 2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 214.