Kuiken kruipt uit ei

Hasegawa Settan (vermeld op object), 1813

Een kuiken probeert uit zijn al gebroken ei te komen. Twee haiku gedichten. Gemaakt voor het nieuwe jaar van de haan.

  • Soort kunstwerkprent, surimono
  • ObjectnummerRP-P-1999-257-21
  • Afmetingenblad: hoogte 193 mm x breedte 139 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenkleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken

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Gele bloemen

Zonsopkomst

Hasegawa Settan (vermeld op object), 1824

Zonsopkomst

Kraanvogels en schildpadden

Hasegawa Settan (vermeld op object), 1808

Kraanvogels en schildpadden

Mand met kruiden

Hasegawa Settan (vermeld op object), 1831

Mand met kruiden

Speelgoedaap

Hasegawa Settan (vermeld op object), 1836

Speelgoedaap

Speelgoed haan

Hasegawa Settan (vermeld op object), 1825

Speelgoed haan

Hasegawa Settan

Chick Hatching from an Egg

Japan, 1813

Provenance

…; collection Gasai Sadachika, Japan;…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1995;1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 46, cat. no. 338u by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-257-21

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

Context

This print was preserved in an album apparently compiled by Gasai Sadachika at the age of 67 in the autumn of the Year of the Dog in the Kaei period, Kanoe inu, 1850, containing works predominantly by Settan and other designers. For more prints from this album, see e.g. RP-P-1999-257-1.

The artist

Biography

Hasegawa Settan (1778–1843), a pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni, was probably best known for his illustrations to the Illustrated Famous Places of Edo, Edo meisho zue (1834/1836), and the Annual Events in the Eastern Capital, Toto saijiki (1832). He received the honorary rank of hokkyo in about 1824.

Entry

A chick trying to get out of its already-broken egg.

The dating 'New Year of the Cock', Tori no haru, i.e., 1813, appears at top left.

Two haiku poems by Shun? and illegible.

Issued by the poets
Signature reading: Gangakusai Settan, with seal reading: Settan(?)

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 52

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hasegawa Settan, Chick Hatching from an Egg, Japan, 1813', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200416153

(accessed 8 December 2025 14:42:32).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 46, cat. no. 338u