Porseleinen pot en opgevouwen papier

Kitagawa Tsukimaro (vermeld op object), 1809

Een blauw-witte porseleinen pot en goudkleurig gevouwen papier, waar waarschijnlijk wierook in zit. In de pot zit waarschijnlijk zand, om de wierook in te zetten. De prent is gedateerd 'het vroege voorjaar van het jaar van de slang' (1809), en gedrukt op crêpe papier. Met één gedicht.

  • Soort kunstwerkprent, surimono
  • ObjectnummerRP-P-1991-469
  • Afmetingenblad: hoogte 135 mm x breedte 176 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenkleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken; metaalpigmenten

Kitagawa Tsukimaro

A Porcelain Pot and Folded Paper

Japan, Japan, 1809

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer Johannes Marcus (Kunsthandel Magdalena Sothmann), Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1983;1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 63, cat. no. 140 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-469

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


The artist

Biography

Kitagawa Tsukimaro (d. 1830) was a pupil of Kitagawa Utamaro, early name Kikumaro, changing the character for 'Kiku' in 1802 and taking the name Tsukimaro from 1804. He also used the art-names Bokutei, Kansetsu and Kansetsusai.


Entry

A blue-and-white porcelain pot on three feet, probably containing sand; in the foreground, a package made of folded gold paper, possibly containing incense.

It was customary to burn incense on sand in containers made of various materials.

The design is printed on crêped paper, a special effect sometimes favoured on surimono from the late 1790s and early 1800s (cf. RP-P-1991-619 and RP-P-1991-626). The date of the print is at top left, 'Early Spring of the Snake Year', Mi no shoshun, i.e., 1809.

One poem by Ichimian Arashihito(?) [or Arashindo]. The name of the Asakusagawa poetry club appears, as a rarity, in a vertical hand-stamped cartouche at bottom right.

Issued by the poet, a member of the Asakusagawa (also known as Tsubogawa)
Signature reading: Tsukitnaro no zu


Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 189


Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Kitagawa Tsukimaro, A Porcelain Pot and Folded Paper, Japan, 1809', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200467506

(accessed 10 December 2025 07:28:20).

Footnotes

  • 1Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 63, cat. no. 140