Man staand bij dame

Shigenobu (II) (vermeld op object), ca. 1825 - ca. 1830

Een man met een offertafeltje in zijn handen en gekleed in hofkleding met een vlinder embleem, staat naast een zittende vrouw in een kimono met kraanvogelmotief. De kleding en make-up, maakt duidelijk dat het om acteurs gaat in de rol van Soga no Gorô Tokimune en zijn maîtresse Maizuru. Met drie gedichten.

  • Soort kunstwerkprent, surimono
  • ObjectnummerRP-P-1991-575
  • Afmetingenblad: hoogte 209 mm (shikishiban) x breedte 183 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenkleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken; metaalpigmenten

Yanagawa Shigenobu (II)

A Man Standing Next to a Lady

Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan, c. 1825 - c. 1830

Inscriptions

  • inscription, verso, handwritten: Japanese characters.

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer Bernard Haase, London, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1985;1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 40, cat. no. 80 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-575

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


The artist

Biography

Yanagawa Shigenobu II (died after 1868), a pupil of Yanagawa Shigenobu, first used the name Shigeyama or, incorrectly often read as Juzan, and either took the name of his teacher after Shigenobu left for Osaka, or only after his death in 1833.


Entry

A man in courtly robes decorated with a butterfly emblem holding an offering stand and standing beside a kneeling lady who is similarly dressed in court attire, her kimono featuring a pattern of cranes.

Number Eight: The Rare Luck Flower, Sono hachi - Udonge, from the series A Comparison of Flowers, Hana awase.

The Udonge in the title, from the Sanskrit udumbára, is the plant Ficus Glomerata, which takes 3000 years to bloom. Hence, it has come to mean an extremely rare stroke of luck. The patterns on their clothing identify the couple as Soga no Goro Tokimune, the younger of the two Soga brothers, and Maizuru, the younger sister of Asahina Saburo, the jester in the Tale of the Soga Brothers, Soga monogatari (date and author unknown).

Three poems by Chojintei, Keitei and Shakuyakutei [Nagane, 1767-1845, earlier Asagi no Uranari. As Sugawara no Nagane, he established his own poetry club, the Sugawararen, publishing from 1826].2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 160.

Issued by the Sugawararen
Signature reading: Yanagawa Shigenobu, with seal: Yanagawa


Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 381


Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, ', Yanagawa (II) Shigenobu, A Man Standing Next to a Lady, Japan, c. 1825 - c. 1830', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200485445

(accessed 11 December 2025 11:52:13).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 40, cat. no. 80
  • 2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 160.