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Toy Print : Trick Print : Shikake-e : Pop-up Porn Print.

In the early nineteenth century small koban-size and also hanshibon (book) size ‘toy’ prints (shikake-e) with flaps and doors that could be opened to reveal sex acts were quite popular.

These kind of ‘pop-up porn’ illustrations at first show a rather innocent scene of a couple under a blanket or behind a sliding door for instance but in a following view when the cover has been lifted it reveals an explicit sexual act or the sexual organs of the protoganists. In some cases (mainly the koban prints) it’s also possible to move the genitalia of the male or female protoganist with a seperate cord.

Shunga prints often used the finest quality paper and colors. Moreover, ‘toy’prints, which were expensive to produce, were almost exclusively made for shunga. This shows that shunga were high value items with a good market.

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Humorous Shikake-e Shunga – Kuniyoshi –

Dog Lover – Bestiality – Secret Lover – c.1827.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 c.1827.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861).
Shikake-e ( Toy print/Trick picture ).Date: c.1827. Size ( Plate 1 ): 9 3/4” x 8 2/3” inches.
Size ( Plate 2 with dog ): 9 2/3” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Hiyaku mon futari furisode.’
Fine impression (with elaborate bokashi shading), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws.

Reference: p.402 (Fig.6 a and b) in ‘Japanese Erotic Art, the Hidden World of Shunga’ by Ofer Shagan

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Two Rare Shuncho Prints - Dreaming Maiden - Attack By Devils - Cunnilingus - c.1800.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock Katsukawa Shunchõ (act. c. 1780s-early 1800s). Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1800. Size (each): 10 2/5" x 8 3/4" inches. Series: 'Takara bako (A Female Treasure)'.
Title: 'Maiden Dreaming of Attack by Devils'. Fine impression, color and near fine condition.
Some very slight soiling only otherwise magnificent state.

Reference: p.112 (Ill.159) in 'Strangers in Paradise: the Foreign Image in Japanese Art & Shunga' by R. Lane.

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Rare Shunga Toy Print – Man With Two Beauties – c.1850.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa school. Shikake-e (Toy print).
Date: c.1850s. Size (open):ca. 7 4/5” x 6” inches. Size (closed): 6” x 2 2/3” inches.
Size figure: 3 1/3” x 2 1/6” inches. Fine impression, very good color and condition.
Minor wrinkling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“Rare shikake-e featuring a male lover having intercourse with two various women.
The storage folder has been decorated with a gift bow.”

Shikake-e are becoming increasingly rare !

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Shunga Toy Print – Utagawa School – Inexperienced Courtesan – c.1850.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa school. Shikake-e (Toy print or ‘Trick Picture’).
Date: c.1850. Size: 5” x 3 1/2” inches. Very good impression, color and near fine condition.
Minor marks and flaws only. Overall in a wonderful state!

“Lovely shikake-e portraying a couple covered by a huge blanket. When the blanket is flipped their intimate activities become visible. The shunga book in the background suggests that the woman is still a young inexperienced courtesan.”

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Rare Toy Print Shunga – Lesbian Peekers In A Bathhouse – Utagawa School – c.1840.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by a prominent member of the Utagawa school.
Shikake-e (Trick picture/ Toy print). Date: c.1840. Size: 11” x 3 1/4” inches. Fine impression (with extensive use of metallic pigment details and gauffrage), color and very good condition. Minor loss of paper due to extensive use of metallic pigments. Two flaps are missing. Minor marks and flaws.

“An extremely rare (possibly unique) and complicated shikake-e piece with various flaps revealing various scenes of isolated women in a bathhouse and female peekers (rare theme!).”

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Utagawa School – Trick-Picture – Nightscene At The Harbour – c.1850.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by a pupil of the Utagawa school. Date: c.1850.
Shikake-e (Toy print/ Trick-picture). Koban size: 3 1/3” x 4 3/4” inches.
Fine impression, color and near fine condition. Minor marks and flaws. Very nice state !

“A lovely scene with a couple having intercourse at the harbour during the evening.
The man has lifted up his lover against a construction pole while penetrating her.”

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Utagawa School – Shikake-e – Oiran – c.1850.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa school. Shikake-e (Trick print/ Toy print).
Date: c.1850s.Koban size: 5” x 3 1/2” inches.Fine impression, very good color and condition.
Some minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws.

“Intimate picture featuring an oiran (high-class courtesan) and her client.”

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Utagawa School – Shikake-e – On The Street – Sleeping Dog – c.1860.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa school. Shikake-e (Trick print/ Toy print).
Date: c.1860s.Koban size: 5” x 3 2/5” inches.Fine impression, very good color and condition.
Some staining, minor wear and soiling,marks and flaws.

“An amusing erotic scene of a secret encounter of an intimate couple making love on the street. Amusing details are the sleeping dog and the blind man using a long cane in the background.”

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Utagawa School – Shikake-e – Nude Couple – c.1860.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa school. Shikake-e (Trick print/ Toy print).
Date: c.1860s.Size: 2 3/4” x 2 3/4” inches.Very good impression, color and condition.
Some minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws.

“A completely naked couple making love.
Their insatiability is emphasized by the numerous crumpled tissues that surround them.”

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Utagawa School – Shikake-e – Opposite – c.1850.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa school. Shikake-e (Trick print/ Toy print).
Date: c.1850s.Size: 2 2/3” x 3 4/5” inches.Fine impression, very good color and condition.
Some minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws.

“A rare toy-print set consisting of a male and female figure when put together
make love while looking in opposite directions.”

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Utagawa School – Shikake-e – Threesome – c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa school. Shikake-e (Trick print/ Toy print).
Date: c.1870s.Size (open): 10 4/5” x 6 1/2” inches.Size (closed): 5 3/4” x 2 1/2“ inches.
Very good impression, color and condition.Some staining, minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws.

“Two young females anxiously await (look at their facial expressions!) what the resolute
man has in store.”

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Very Rare Fold-Out Shunga – Kunisada – Secret Intimate Scene – c.1827.

Very Rare Fold-Out Shunga – Kunisada – Secret Intimate Scene – c.1827.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1827. Size (closed): 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Size (opened): 19 1/2” x 11 1/5” inches.
Series: ‘The Myth of the Bathhouse (Sento shinwa)’.Fine impression, very good color and good condition.
Several tissue backed tiny wormholes (mainly in the margin), minor wear and soiling.

“An intriguing fold-out piece that starts with an amusing scene featuring a shivering retarded man sitting on a wooden bucket while being taken care of by a noble family.When the four tabs are flipped one enters the “secret” world of a bathhouse. Open the tabs (click on the picture) and enter this secret female world.”

This series is discussed in depth in the nice catalogue Shunga, Stages of Desire which has been published by the Honolulu Museum of Art.

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Superb Shunga Trick Print – Utagawa Kunitora – Horse With Lady – c.1824.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock print by Utagawa Kunitora (act. early 19th Century).
Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1824. Size: 10 3/4” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: “Senrikyu‘.
Fine impression, color and near fine condition. Some minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws.

“In this magnificent trick-print (shikake-e) we can observe a young man fingering his female lover in the open-air. When unfolded a spectacular scene appears featuring a horse performing cunnilingus on the same lady.”

Kunitora was a pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni who was active in the early 19th Century.

Reference: p.289 (Ill.68a/68b) in ‘Japanese Erotic Art, The Hidden World of Shunga’ by Ofer Shagan.

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Extremely rare !

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Superb Shunga Print – Kunisada – Fox Spirit Orgy – Tales Of Pussy – c.1826.

Kaidan yoru no tono by Utagawa Kunisada.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865). Shunga (Spring picture).
Date: Bunsei era, 9th year, 1826. Size (closed):10 3/4” x 8 1/5” inches. Size (open):15” x 8 1/5” inches.
Series: Kaidan Yoru no Tono (Picture Book: Tales of Pussy in the Palace at Night aka.Vaginal Tales of the Nocturnal Palace). Author: Utei Enba II (1792-1862). Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Only some minor wear and soiling. Magnificent use of metallic printing and embossing.

“An incredible masterpiece design in the shape of a trick print with a man involved in a mysterious threesome with an audience of female onlookers. When all flaps are lifted the viewer is confronted with a huge fox spirit orgy.

Foxes (Kitsune) could transform themselves into male or (more usually) female human form to trick people into having sex or try to obtain something from them in return for sex. They were shown either as foxes deceiving dressed as humans or as humans with tails. In this particular toy (trick) print what appears to be a woman is revealed as a fox when the flap is lifted.”

References: p.280 (Fig.38 a,b) in Japanese Erotic Art, the Hidden World of Shunga by Ofer Shagan.

This whole series is also described and portrayed in the book A Harlot’s Account of Vernal Love: A Journal of Defloration (Shunjo gidan mizuagecho), published by D.M. Richardson (1994).

The ‘Tales of the Pussy’-series is also treated in depth in The Complete Ukiyoe Shunga (Teihon Ukiyo-e Shunga Meihin Shusei), Vol.10 by Yoshikazu Hayashi

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> Kaidan yoru no tono ( Vaginal Tales of the Nocturnal Palace ).

Another impression of this piece is in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art.

A truly magnificent erotic piece !

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Very Rare Shunga – Kunisada – Toy Print – Spectacular Murder Scene – c.1826.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865). Shunga (Spring picture).
Date: Bunsei era, 9th year, 1826. Size (closed): 10 3/4” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: Kaidan Yoru no Tono (Picture Book: Tales of Pussy in the Palace at Night aka.Vaginal Tales of the Nocturnal Palace). Author: Utei Enba II (1792-1862). Fine impression, very good color and condition. Only some minor wear and soiling.

“A stunning and very complex trick-print featuring two extra-ordinary settings in sequence, one shortly before the murderous assault with a man climbing on a balcony with in the background a kissing couple in silhouette behind closed doors and the other one shortly after.the man’s violent attack with the woman falling from the balcony.”

Reference: p.404 (Fig.9 a,b) in Japanese Erotic Art, the Hidden World of Shunga by Ofer Shagan.

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Rare Shunga – Kunisada – Toy Print – Actors With Changing Setting – c.1826.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865). Shunga (Spring picture).
Date: Bunsei era, 9th year, 1826. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: Kaidan Yoru no Tono (Picture Book: Tales of Pussy in the Palace at Night aka.Vaginal Tales of the Nocturnal Palace). Author: Utei Enba II (1792-1862).
Fine impression, very good color and condition. Only some minor wear and soiling. Magnificent use of metallic printing.

“A wonderful shikake-e design of a kabuki play featuring two lovers in the foreground with in the background two plotting farmers. When the flap is lifted a stage is revealed with two partly visible musicians.”

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Rare Toy Print – Kuniyasu – Funny Boat Scene – c.1830

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyasu (1794–1832).
Shunga (Spring picture). Date: c.1830. Size: 4 2/5” x 6 4/5” inches. Series: “Koi no minato nyogo no shima da.”
Fine impression, color and condition. Minor wrinkling, marks and flaws only.

“A rather unusual shikake-e (toy print) sequence scene. At first the scene features a calm image with a boat on the dock while the second features three men sitting in the boat at rough sea ”.

Rare piece, because usually toy prints have a stronger or explicit erotic undertone !

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Extremely Rare Complete Shunga Toy Set – Five Vulva Close-Up Scenes – c.1850.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock print set by Utagawa school. Shikake-hon (‘toy’-prints, aka trick prints).
Date: c.1850. Size picture booklet (closed): 5” x 3 1//5” inches. Size booklet opened: 7 1/6” x 5” inches.
Fine impression, color and condition. Nearly flawless state, some very light wear.

A highly amusing, very interesting and virtually untraceable shunga piece !

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Large Toy Print – Utagawa School - Japanese Erotic Game - Adonis With 13 Women - c.1840.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa school. Shikake-e (Toy-print). Date: c.1840s.
Size (print): 13 7/8" x 6 1/4" inches. Size (male figure): ca. 4” x 2” inches. Fine impression, color and condition.
Some very minor wear, marks and flaws only. The folding marks are intentional (for storage) as are the slits in the paper for each female protagonist.

An extremely rare and by collectors highly coveted shunga toy-print depicting thirteen nude women and one man. When not in use, the man fits beneath a quilt pocket on the front of the folden print. The man is double-sided and can interact with each of the women in the print due to the slits in the paper.

“...There is also a kind of game comprised of a print showing many naked women in different positions with cuts in the paper where their intimate parts should be, and an additional print, of a male figure with an erect penis, that could be moved so as to penetrate each of the women, according to the player’s choice”.
(Description of a similar design by Ofer Shagan in “Encyclopedia of Japanese Erotic Art: Shunga Vol.2”)

These large toy-prints are very rarely seen complete (including the quilt storage pocket) and intact.

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Shunga Toy-Print – Utagawa School – Penetration Close-Up – c.1840s.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa school (most probably Koikowa Shozan). Shunga (Spring Picture).
Date: c.1840s. Size (print): 7 1/2” x 2 1/2” inches. Size: (phallus fig.): 3 1/2” x 1 2/5” inches.
Fine impression, color and near fine condition. Some minor marks and flaws only.
Superb use of metallic pigments and gauffrage on the white collar. Look for the elaborate carving of the woman’s hair !

Highly detailed and magnificent trick-print (a.k.a. toy-print) including a paper phallus featuring an ecstatic young woman during penetration.

Very rare piece !

You can find a very interesting comment on this particular shunga piece and others by the Danish art historian and erotic art fan Grith Gough if you > Click here.

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Famous Shunga Trick Print -

Toyokuni I - c.1823 - Agitated Cat.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa Toyokuni I (1769-1825). Shunga (Erotic genre).
Date: c.1823. Size: 10 3/4” x 8 1/2” inches. Fine impression, very good color and condition.
Some minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws only.

Amusing and well-known trick-print (a.k.a. toy-print) by the important Ukiyo-e master Toyokuni I featuring two different scenes at the same location. At first one witnesses a seemingly innocent scene with a couple under a blanket with the man talking to a servant, but when opened the included flap reveals the naughty activities underneath the blanket. The cat is got kicked out from underneath a kotatsu (a low wooden table covered by a blanket with underneath a heat source) by a couple who have other plans. The Japanese text surrounding the cat emphasizes his complaints.

Reference: p.171 (Ill.24) in Encyclopedia of Japanese Erotic Art: Shunga (Vol.1) by Ofer Shagan

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Rare Trick Print - Vagina Scroll. c.1849. Utagawa Kuniyoshi - Shunga.

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Antique erotic Japanese color woodblock Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861). Date: Kaei era, 2nd year (1849).
Size: 10 2/3" x 9" inches. Fine impression (with metallic pigments), color and near fine condition.
Two very small wormholes, minor marks and flaws.

Very rare and amusing fold-out trick-print depicting three female musicians. Once the print has been fold-out the scenery changes and now two of the women are looking at a scroll depicting their own genitals mimicking male characters !

A masterful design by the great Kuniyoshi !

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Toyokuni I - Shunga -

Demented Boy - Toy Print.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock prints Toyokuni I (1769-1825), Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1823.
Chubon size: 10 1/3" x 8 1/2" inches. Series: "Kaichu kagami". Fine impression, very good colors and condition. Some very small repaired wormholes, very minor soiling and browning, minor marks and flaws but overall in very good state! Wonderful use of metalic pigments and very detailed carving of individual hair-lines! Nicely executed embossing (gauffrage) and 'bokashi"-shading to the face of the woman.

A demented boy is aroused which becomes clear when the folding screen will be unfolded (see pictures!) Look for the facial expression of the demented boy !

Shunga designs by Toyokuni I (Master of Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, Toyokuni II...etc.) are relatively rare and the designs from this series are among his best work !

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Kuniyoshi - Rare Shunga - Toy Print - The Bigamist - c.1840

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Kuniyoshi (1797-1861). Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1840/'50.
Fine impression, colors and very good condition. Size: 10 1/2" x 8 1/4" inches.
Some very minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws otherwise in a very good state !
Wonderful use of gauffrage and metallic pigments !

A very rare and wonderful toy-print depicting a man making love during daytime and at night with various partners.
He could be some kind of Casanova, a bigamist or maybe an insatiable brothel louse...!

Look for the other pictures ('Click Here' button!) to see the changes in the right part of the design !

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Very Rare Shunga - Utagawa School

Violent Cruxifiction Scene - Foxfire - Toy Print - c.1840.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock prints Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1840.
Size: 8 2/3" x 7 1/2" inches. Fine impression, very good color and condition. A small wormhole, very minor wear and soiling otherwise very good state! Wonderful use of gauffrage and 'bokashi' -shading ! A highly unusual scene depicting two cruxifiction scenes (in twice!) involving a partly nude male and female nailed to a board ! The setting is probably near the surroundings of the Kurosuke Inari shrine. The association with Inari and foxes is accentuated by the inclusion of a burning kitsunebi, 'fox-light' or will-o'-the-wisps, near the protagonists. Look for the comical facial expression on the fishing basket !

An extremely rare shunga design !

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