Fluisterende vrouw en meisje

anonymous, 1797

Een courtisane staat in een kamer en fluistert iets in het oor van het meisje op de veranda. De korte maanden voor het nieuwe jaar zijn aangegeven in het nervenpatroon van het hout aan de onderkant van de schuifdeur.

  • Artwork typeprint, egoyomi (kalenderblad)
  • Object numberRP-P-2006-110
  • Dimensionsheight 139 mm x width 86 mm
  • Physical characteristicsnishikie

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Fluisterende vrouw en meisje

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-2006-110

  • Description

    Een courtisane staat in een kamer en fluistert iets in het oor van het meisje op de veranda. De korte maanden voor het nieuwe jaar zijn aangegeven in het nervenpatroon van het hout aan de onderkant van de schuifdeur.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    collector's mark, verso, stamped: Lugt 2228

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    Forrer 115

Creation

  • Creation

    printmaker: anonymous, Japan

  • Dating

    1797

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    nishikie

  • Dimensions

    height 139 mm x width 86 mm

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

  • Acquisition

    purchase 2006

  • Copyright

    Public domain

Documentation

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anonymous

Girl Whispering into a Woman`s ear

Japan, 1797

Inscriptions

  • collector's mark, verso, stamped

The artist

Biography

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) first studied with Katsukawa Shunsho but later developed his own style. He was occasionally influenced by various other traditions, and designed thousands of calendar prints and surimono from 1787 until about 1810. His surimono production diminished in the 1810s but he resumed his former output between 1321 and 1825. He is best known for his landscape prints of the 1830s.

Entry

An apprentice courtesan, shinzo, standing on the balcony, engawa, of a house, whispers a message into the ear of her mistress, who is in the room. A flowering plum in the garden.

This print is a picture calendar, egoyomi, for 1797, the numerals for the short months, 2, 4, 6, 8, intercalary 7, and 9, visible on the lower panel of the sliding panels.

No poems.

Issued anonymously
Unsigned

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'anonymous, Girl Whispering into a Woman`s ear, Japan, 1797', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200484248

(accessed 24 mei 2026 07:57:29 UTC+0).