Voorbeelden van motieven voor stof

Masayuki (vermeld op object), 1796

Twee lapjes stof met verschillende motieven. In langwerpige cartouches staan de namen van de stoffen die zijn afgebeeld. Met twee gedichten.

  • Soort kunstwerkprent, surimono
  • ObjectnummerRP-P-1991-576
  • Afmetingenblad: hoogte 139 mm x breedte 186 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenkleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken

Masayuki

Samples of Patterned Cloth

Japan, 1796

Inscriptions

  • stamped: lower right, in red ink, with seal of H. de Winiwarter

Provenance

…; collection Hans de Winiwarter (1865-1949), Liège; collection Edmond de Winiwarter (1879-1951), Ben-Ahin, near Liège (L. 1389);…; purchased from the dealer Bernard Haase, London, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1985;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 41, cat. no. 81 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-576

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

Context

Various similar designs featuring samples of precious foreign cloth or other antiquities are known, based on the early treatise on antiquities, the Soken kisho of 1781. This design was not identified in the Soken kisho, however. Kubota Shunman designed one such series entitled Famous Leathers, Ditto Medicine Cases, Netsuke, Meibutsu kawa onajiku inro onajiku netsuke (see Boisgirard2Boisgirard, 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, pp. 704-705. and Ota3Fujisawa Morihiko korekushon surimono o chuushin to shite (The Fujisawa Morihiko Collection: with a Stress on Surimono) Tokyo: Ota Memorial Museum of Art, 1998, pp. 178-82.).

The artist

Biography

Masayuki was an occasional amateur designer, unless this is a name used by Ryuryukyo Shinsai.

Entry

Two samples of patterned cloth or leather, the circular piece on the right with a repeated hexagonal pattern called katsuragi, the square piece on the left: featuring a dragon on a gold ground.

Masayuki was the early name of Ryuryukyo Shinsai, later a student of Hokusai. It is difficult to establish if this is an early design by him that is still signed with his own name and not with Shinsai, his name as a print designer.

Two poems by ?ro? Uchichika and Shitaro Yoshiki(?).

Issued by the poets
Seal reading: Masayuki

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 14

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Masayuki, Samples of Patterned Cloth, Japan, 1796', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200467446

(accessed 6 December 2025 23:27:44).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 41, cat. no. 81
  • 2Boisgirard, 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, pp. 704-705.
  • 3Fujisawa Morihiko korekushon surimono o chuushin to shite (The Fujisawa Morihiko Collection: with a Stress on Surimono) Tokyo: Ota Memorial Museum of Art, 1998, pp. 178-82.