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Japanese Woodblock Printed Shunga Erotic Book 1850s browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900: item # 917815 Please refer to our stock # b5086 when inquiring.
Brian Page Antiques Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom Tel: 01273 622152 Guest Book GBP 300 |
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A Fine Japanese Woodblock Printed Shunga (Erotic) Album 1850s. Edo
7 1/8 x 4 3/4 ins. (18.1 x 12 cms) This beautifully printed book is embellished with metallic pigments, and is an erotic parody of the Genji Monogatari (Tales of Genji), the world's first novel. The devices on the back cover and in the background of the second plate are Genji-mon, geometrical references to each chapter of the book. Following on from the frontispiece, showing a fan, a Go board and lamp, is a double folding plate which opens to the width of four pages. The latter part of the book is text with monochrome illustrations of shells, each with a Genji-mon, and naughty bits. There are 16 pages of colour illustrations and 18 pages of text with monochrome illustrations. The book is in remarkable condition and even has the original stitching. The front cover has some minor repairs where the metallic pigment has rotted the paper, and there is some off-setting of the metallic pigments, especially on the woman's skin on the fourth plate. It dates from the late 1850s in the latter part of the Edo Period. Like most shunga the work is unsigned but is clearly of the Utagawa school.
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