In een theehuis

Teisai Hokuba (vermeld op object), 1805

Drie serveersters in een theehuis. Op de achtergrond een leeg zwaardenrek met daarboven een schildering van een man rijdend op een os. Op de lantaarns die boven de veranda hangen staat de naam van het theehuis: Sôkaya. De prent lijkt reclame te maken voor het theehuis Sôkaya Yasubei aan de Yagobori Fudô-mae, in Edo. Met twee gedichten.

  • Soort kunstwerkprent, surimono
  • ObjectnummerRP-P-1991-552
  • Afmetingenblad: hoogte 190 mm x breedte 250 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenkleurenhoutsnede; blinddruk; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken; metaalpigmenten

Teisai Hokuba

Scene in a Tea House

Japan, Japan, Japan, 1805

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1984;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 21, cat. no. 27 by whom donated to the museum, 1992

Object number: RP-P-1991-552

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


The artist

Biography

Teisai Hokuba (1771-1844) was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai. He used the art-name Teisai. There also seems to have been a Hokuba II.


Entry

A woman carrying a lidded bowl on a tray turns her head to speak to another woman preparing a meal on a serving tray, a sake cup in her hand. Behind them, a young girl looks out over the railing of the veranda. To the left an alcove, tokonoma, with a painting of a man riding an ox, a sword-stand in front of it.

This print seems to advertise the teahouse of Sokaya Yasubei at Yagenbori Fudomae, Edo. The painting in the tokonoma probably represents Roshi, better known as Lao-tzu, riding an ox led by an assistant. It is signed —(?) Hidehiko, with seals.

Two poems by Mayusumi [Keirindo or Wainando Katsura no Mayusumi, 1763-1833, a judge of the Kankogawa],2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 210. and Hoshutei Nariyuki.

The poem by Mayusumi, which is inscribed on a hanging board as though part of the restaurant's menu, alludes to the - First dream of the New Year, when Spring has come again, the plum is blooming and we are drinking sake.

Issued by the teahouse owner Sokaya Yasubei(?)
Signature reading: Teisai Hokuba ga


Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 124


Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Teisai Hokuba, Scene in a Tea House, Japan, 1805', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200409123

(accessed 14 December 2025 21:23:12).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 21, cat. no. 27
  • 2Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 210.