Woman Seated in Front of an Offering Stand, Utagawa Kunisada (I), 1834

Title(s)

Woman Seated in Front of an Offering Stand

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1991-544

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 562-b
• Goslings 61

Description

Acteur Osagawa Tsuneyo IV speelt Sonô, de vrouw van Raikô, zittend bij een offertafeltje. Met drie gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Utagawa Kunisada (I) (mentioned on object)
• Matsutoshi Bunsôsha (mentioned on object)
• Bunkôsha Funatsumi (mentioned on object)
• Bunkinsha Ononaga (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

1834

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments and tsuyazuri

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / polishing

Measurements

height 208 mm × width 186 mm

What

• portrait of actor, actress
• female impersonation by actor
• ritual objects and ritual means ~ non-Christian religions

Credit line

• Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

Acquisition

gift 1991

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 293, cat.nr. 562b
• Surimono : schenkingen Goslings 1991 en 1995, J.H.W. Goslings, p. 34, cat.nr. 61
• Japanese prints and drawings from the Vever collection, Jack Ronald Hillier, cat.nr. 816a