Speelgoedverkoper en twee kinderen

anoniem, ca. 1826

Een koopman met rieten hoed draagt een doos om zijn hals waarin vlinders op stokjes, zogenaamde vlinders van berg Yoshino (Yoshinoyama chôchô). Twee kinderen staan voor hem. Met één gedicht.

  • Soort kunstwerkprent, surimono
  • ObjectnummerRP-P-1991-570
  • Afmetingenblad: hoogte 197 mm (shikishiban) x breedte 173 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenkleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken; metaalpigmenten

anonymous

Toy Seller and Two Children

Japan, c. 1826

Inscriptions

  • collector's mark, verso, stamped

Provenance

…; collection Samuel Tuke (1854-1937), Netherton Hall, near Honiton, Devon (L. 2973);…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1985;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 13, cat. no. 9 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-570

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

Context

Horai Sanjin was, with Sairaikyo, involved in selecting poems for The Illustrated Kyoka hyakusho zuden (1826), illustrated by Kuninao, as well as, with Nennensai, for the Kyoka Poems on Beauties as Hermits, Kyoka bijin kasenshu (1820s), illustrated by Kuninao and Eisen.2Suga, Chikuho, Kyoka shomoku shusei. Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1936), pp. 72, 79.

Entry

A toy seller wearing a straw hat, his wares in a box hanging from his neck, shows butterflies on a stick to two young boys.

The toys are butterflies attached to a string, called ‘butterflies from Mount Yoshino’, Yoshinoyama chocho in the poem.

One poem by Shojuro, alias betsugo Horai Sanjin [II, 1792 – 1862, also Shikkokuro and Shojuan Nagatoshi, later Utei Enba II].3Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 30 and p. 205.

Issued by the poet
Unsigned

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 482

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'anonymous, Toy Seller and Two Children, Japan, c. 1826', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200475215

(accessed 9 December 2025 09:01:08).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 13, cat. no. 9
  • 2Suga, Chikuho, Kyoka shomoku shusei. Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1936), pp. 72, 79.
  • 3Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 30 and p. 205.