Bril op een schildering

Totoya Hokkei (vermeld op object), 1823

Een stilleven van een gedeeltelijk uitgerolde rolschildering, een pijp en een bril met het bijbehorende tasje. De schildering toont een gezicht op het eiland Matsushima en omgeving. De Yabai pruimenboom, afgebeeld tegen een groene achtergrond, zou bij de Zuiganji tempel op dat eiland groeien. De bloesem van deze boom heeft acht blaadjes, vandaar de naam Yabai (acht blaadjes). Met twee gedichten.

  • Soort kunstwerkprent, surimono
  • ObjectnummerRP-P-1999-238
  • Afmetingenblad: hoogte 207 mm (shikishiban) x breedte 182 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenkleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken; metaalpigmenten

Totoya Hokkei

Spectades on a Scroll

Japan, Japan, 1823

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer Bernard Haase, London, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1999;1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 8, cat. no. 319 by whom donated to the museum, 1999

Object number: RP-P-1999-238

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


Context

The Three Famous Views of Japan, Nihon no sankei, are Matsushima in Mutsu Province, not far from Sendai; Amanohashidate in Tango Province; and Itsukushima in Aki Province. They were first defined by Hayashi Shunsai (1618-80) in his Reflections on the Remains of Japan's Achievements, Nihonkoku jisekiko, of 1643.


The artist

Biography

Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai, although he was first trained in the Kano painting tradition and used the art-names Kyosai and Aoigaoka. He was one of the most prolific designers of surimono in the 1820s and early 1830s, and also illustrated numerous collections of kyoka poetry.


Entry

A still life of a partly unrolled handscroll, a pipe and a pair of glasses with its pouch.

The Eight-petalled Plum, Yabai, from A Series for the Hanazono Poetry Club, Hanazono bantsuzuki.

According to the Chinese text in the panel at right, the eight-petalled plum is found at the temple Zuiganji at Matsushima. The partly opened scroll also features a view of Matsushima, one of the Three Famous Views of Japan, Nihon no sankei (cf. RP-P-1958-574).

One poem by Rokutokuen Tsurumaru from Senpu, i.e., Sendai. In his poem, Tsurumaru gives the subject of the scroll as a view of Matsushima (cf. RP-P-1958-574); the Chinese poem refers to a miraculous plum tree at the temple Zuiganji at Matsushima, which bears eight fruits for each of its flowers.

Issued by the Hanazonoren
Signature reading: Hokkei


Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 317


Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Totoya Hokkei, Spectades on a Scroll, Japan, 1823', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200413487

(accessed 8 December 2025 18:58:00).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 2004, p. 8, cat. no. 319