…; purchased from the dealer Aoika, Japan, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1988;¹¹Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 24, cat. no. 36 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-630

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

A black-lacquered court-cap, eboshi, on a low wooden stand, its tasselled cords falling to the ground. The tasselled cords in blindprinting.

While there are only one or two surviving copies of many of Hokusai's early surimono, i.e., those designed before the 1820s, there is a duplicate of this print in the Rijksmuseum collection RP-P-1991-630, and another copy in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Two poems by Yakkorasai and Senshuan [II, Shimotoke or also Kasumi, 1761-1811, first a follower of Tsumuri no Hikaru, later a judge of the Asakusagawa and owner of a bookshop and publisher under the name of Yamanaka Yosuke].²²Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 103.

Issued by a follower of the poet Senshuan II
Signature reading: Sori aratame (changed his name to) Hokusai ga

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 94a

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Katsushika Hokusai, A Court-cap on a Stand, Japan, c. 1799', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200467465