…; the dealer or collection Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906) (L. 2971);…; purchased from the dealer C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1991;¹¹Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 25, cat. no. 38 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-678

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

For other Hokusai designs from this series, see:

Chanoyu: Tea ceremony -²²Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Paintings /.../ 15 December 1988. London: Sotheby's London, 1988, p. 330.,³³Narazaki, Muneshige (ed.), Hizo //Ukiyoe = ukiyoe// taikan, vol. 8. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989, 46, and pl. 199.,⁴⁴Fujisawa Morihiko korekushon surimono o chuushin to shite (The Fujisawa Morihiko Collection: with a Stress on Surimono) Tokyo: Ota Memorial Museum of Art, 1998, 148.
Kyoka: A woman about to inscribe a fan -⁵⁵Narazaki, Muneshige (ed.), Hizo //Ukiyoe = ukiyoe// taikan, vol. 8. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989, 77, and pl. 200.
Woman with lantern by a gate discovers Yoshitsune playing the flute;
Two women making sand and stone landscapes;
Dengaku dancing: Three dancers;
A monkey trainer;
Boy by New Year's decorations lifting a sake cup.

A woman helps a young girl hold a brush before she dips it in the ink and writes on a large sheet of paper on a writing table.

Calligraphy, Sho, from A Series of Thirty-six Traditional Accomplishments, Shogei sanjuroku no tsuzuki.

One poem by Asakuraan [Hashi no] Sansho [a judge of the Tsubogawa].⁶⁶Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 82.

The Six Traditional Accomplishments, Rikugei, a concept dating from as early as the Chinese Eastern Chou dynasty (770-c. 256), consist of etiquette, music, archery, horsemanship, literature, calligraphy, and mathematics. Exactly how the Tsubogawa decided on the 36 accomplishments of this series is difficult to say. The series was jointly produced by Hokusai and his pupil Hishikawa Sori. The dating given here, 1803, or 'New Year of the Boar', Mizunoto i no toshi, appears on several other designs in the series.

Issued by the Asakusagawa (also known as Tsubogawa)
Signature reading: Gakyojin Hokusai ga

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 101

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Katsushika Hokusai, The Calligraphy Lesson, Japan, 1803', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200415828