Bankje met rookgerei

Utagawa Kunisada (I) (vermeld op object), ca. 1810 - ca. 1815

Op een bank met rode mat erover buiten een theehuis staan een rokersset en een bedekte theekom. Naast de afbeelding een gedicht.

  • Soort kunstwerkprent, surimono
  • ObjectnummerRP-P-1999-257-4
  • Afmetingenblad: hoogte 191 mm x breedte 112 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenkleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken

Utagawa Kunisada (I)

Smoking Set on Bench

Japan, c. 1810 - c. 1815

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. 42, cat. no. 338d by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-257-4

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


Context

This 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, i.e., 1850, contains works predominantly by Settan and other designers. For more prints from this album, see e.g., RP-P-1999-257-22.


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 smoking set and a covered tea bowl on a stand placed on a bench covered with a red mat outside a teahouse.

One poem by Shu—tei —masu, with seal: Hana.

Issued by the poet
Signature reading: Kunisada ga, with Toshidama ring


Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 206


Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Utagawa (I) Kunisada, Smoking Set on Bench, Japan, c. 1810 - c. 1815', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200416120

(accessed 11 December 2025 11:51:13).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 42, cat. no. 338d