Ceremonieel nieuwjaarskado met rivierkreeft

Hasegawa Settan (vermeld op object), 1827

Ceremoniële Nieuwjaarsdoos met ronde rijstkoeken (kagamimochi) op varens en sinaasappelbladeren, een rivierkreeft erboven op. Een haiku gedicht. De ronde vorm van de rijstkoeken en de rivierkreeft (die zich rond kan oprollen) symboliseren de oneindigheid. De afgebeelde groene bladeren staan symbool voor een lang leven. Gemaakt voor het nieuwe jaar van het zwijn.

  • Soort kunstwerkprent, surimono
  • ObjectnummerRP-P-1999-257-6
  • Afmetingenblad: hoogte 191 mm x breedte 110 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenkleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken

Ontdek verder

meer door Hasegawa Settan

Gele bloemen

Hasegawa Settan (vermeld op object), 1831

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

Ceremonial New Year's Stand

Japan, Japan, 1827

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. 43, cat. no. 338f by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-257-6

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 ceremonial New Year's stand with large circular rice cakes resting upon ferns and orange leaves, a crayfish on top.

Large circular rice cakes, kagamimochi, literally 'mirror-cakes', made for the New Year, are usually broken as a trial of strength on the tenth day of the New Year. Their circular shape symbolises the unending cycle of time, as does the crayfish, which curls up to form a circle. Ferns, urajiro, orange leaves, daidai, and evergreens also symbolise long life. The dating 'New Year of the Boar', I no toshi no haru, i.e., 182, is written at top left.

One haiku poem by Ushinaga.

Issued by the poet
Signature reading: hokkyo Settan, with seal reading: Gangakusai

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 56

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Hasegawa Settan, Ceremonial New Year's Stand, Japan, 1827', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200416121

(accessed 9 December 2025 15:24:41).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 43, cat. no. 338f