Staande heer in blauwe overkimono

Utagawa Kunisada (I) (vermeld op object), ca. 1825 - ca. 1830

Ichikawa Danjûrô (1791-1859) in een onbekende rol, gekleed in formele hofkleding, leunt op een zwaard. Met drie gedichten.

  • Soort kunstwerkprent, surimono
  • ObjectnummerRP-P-1991-648
  • Afmetingenblad: hoogte 206 mm (shikishiban) x breedte 183 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenkleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken; metaalpigmenten

Ontdek verder

"portrait of actor, actress" door Utagawa Kunisada (I)

Osan

Utagawa Kunisada (I) (vermeld op object), 1862-02

Osan

Nakamura Shikan II als Matsuomaru

Utagawa Kunisada (I) (vermeld op object), 1825 - 1830

Nakamura Shikan II als Matsuomaru

Samoerai in de regen

Utagawa Kunisada (I) (vermeld op object), 1825

Samoerai in de regen

meer door Utagawa Kunisada (I)

Krab loopt langs water

Utagawa Kunisada (I) (vermeld op object), ca. 1822 - ca. 1827

Krab loopt langs water

Badhuis in Hakone

Utagawa Kunisada (I) (vermeld op object), ca. 1827

Badhuis in Hakone

Stormachtige dag aan de Sumida rivier

Utagawa Kunisada (I) (vermeld op object), 1844

Stormachtige dag aan de Sumida rivier

Stormachtige dag aan de Sumida rivier

Utagawa Kunisada (I) (vermeld op object), 1844

Stormachtige dag aan de Sumida rivier

Zonsopgang te Futamigaura

Utagawa Kunisada (I) (vermeld op object), ca. 1828 - 1832

Zonsopgang te Futamigaura

De pleisterplaats Shimada

Utagawa Kunisada (I), 1835 - 1845

De pleisterplaats Shimada

Utagawa Kunisada (I)

Standing Lord in Blue Over-Kimono

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

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer Kunsthandel Huys den Esch, Dodewaard, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1987;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 33, cat. no. 58 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-648

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

The artist

Biography

Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) was a pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni, who dominated the field of kabuki prints until his death. Kunisada's prints of beautiful women, bijinga, were also very successful. Only well after he had established himself as a designer of actor prints did he enter the world of surimono design, becoming the most prolific designer of surimono in the Utagawa tradition. He also used the art-names Ichiyusai, Gototei and Kochoro.

Entry

A man wearing blueish formal court-trousers, hakama, leaning on a sword.

The man is the kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII in the role of a lord. Ichikawa Danjuro VII (1791-1859) acted under this name from XI/1800 to III/1832, when he adopted the name Ichikawa Ebizo V.

Three poems by Bunritsuen Bikkokoto, Bunsaisha Fudemaru and Shofudai [Teitei, also Kunmatei and Junnando, a judge of the Kankogawa and the elder brother of Bunbunsha Kanikomaru].2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 144.

The poems are rather conventional, speaking respectively of the effects of ‘the Spring breeze on the mist’, the appearance of ‘the moon seen through the New Year decorations which move in the wind’ and ‘the dawn of Spring when the mist on Mount Chichibu dissolves’.

Issued by followers of the poet Shofudai Teitei
Signature reading: Gototei Kunisada ga, with Toshidama rings

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 555

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Utagawa (I) Kunisada, Standing Lord in Blue Over-Kimono, Japan, c. 1825 - c. 1830', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200485491

(accessed 11 December 2025 16:29:29).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 33, cat. no. 58
  • 2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 144.