Ikeda Terukata ( 1883-1921 ) p2228 ~ p2239

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Ikeda Terukata 池田輝方 (1883 ~1921) p2228 ~ p2239.

Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921), who died at the early age of 38, was a talented innovator of the shunga genre. He and his contemporaries were very much influenced by the westernization of Japan during that time. For example, the traditional “text-balloons” were omitted, the Yoshiwara (the brothel area) was no longer used as a subject and the designs were
placed in a more realistic setting. In recent years there has been an increasing amount of interest in Terukata’s work.
The prints below are Terukata’s homage to the traditional ukiyo-e masters Utamaro, Eiri and Hokusai and their masterpieces:
Poem of the Pillow (Utamakura), Models of Calligraphy (Fumi no kiyogaki) and The Adonis Plant/ Lovemaking at New Year’s (Fukujuso).

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Meiji Era Shunga – Terukata – After Eiri – Courtesan And Secret Lover – c.1899.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Date: c.1899.
Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/2” x 9 4/5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold otherwise excellent state.

Look for the magnificent printing details such as the use of burnishing, ‘bokashi’-shading and the highly detailed carving of the individual hair-lines.

Ukiyo-e expert dr. Richard Lane comments the following on the original Eiri design in Models of Calligraphy:

“Purely as a work of bijin-ga [figure design] this scene of courtesan and secret lover ranks high not only in Eiri’s oeuvre, but also in the annals of the ukiyo-e genre itself. Both design and coloring are impeccable and, for this period, there is nothing even in the work of the great Utamaro that really surpasses it. One feels, indeed, a little humbled – not to mention honored – to reflect that, prior to our publication here, few indeed must be the readers who will ever have heard of the artist Eiri, not to mention his most fascinating album.

Regarding the relation of this striking print to Utamaro – showing a kept woman and her secret lover – I suspect that problems of taste will loom large in any evaluation. I personally find the Utamakura plate rather cloyingly heavy in tone and not, indeed, very erotic. Eiri – while adopting the same composition – creates a colorful world of real pleasure that one would be only too delighted to enter. Enough said”.

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Meiji Era Shunga – Terukata – After Eiri – Lesbian Love Couple – c.1899.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Date: c.1899.
Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/2” x 9 4/5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition. Very slight
vertical centerfold otherwise excellent state. Great use of gauffrage, ‘bokashi’- shading and detailed
carving of the individual hair-lines.

“A fantasy scene featuring two young courtesans making love using a black harikata (dildo). One of them is applying some lubricant to the harikata to enhance their pleasure. This was one of Toulouse-Lautrec’s favorite shunga designs.”

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Meiji Era Shunga – Terukata – After Hokusai – Mature Couple – c.1899.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Date: c.1899.
Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/2” x 9 4/5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold otherwise excellent state.

Look for the magnificent printing details such as the use of silver and gold pigments and the highly detailed carving of the individual hair-lines.

“In an unusual position an older woman is balancing on the lap of her husband while being penetrated from underneath.”

Ukiyo-e expert dr. Richard Lane comments the following on the original Hokusai design in Lovemaking at New Year’s (aka The Adonis Plant):

“Here the mature lovers – doubtless man and wife – are depicted in a near-acrobatic position rather reminiscent of Utamaro’s plate in Ehon Komachibiki. And Hokusai’s notable outdoor scene of his famed shunga book Kinoe no komatsu also bears interesting comparison. But with such a composition as this one, there is less unity than that found in the earlier Hokusai scenes of the album – and our attention is drawn more to the female’s directions to the male, for optional vaginal and clitoral pleasure”.

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Meiji Era Shunga – Terukata – After Hokusai – Suckling – c.1899.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Date: c.1899.
Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/2” x 9 4/5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold otherwise excellent state.

Look for the magnificent printing details such as the use of ‘bokashi’-shading and the highly detailed carving of the individual hair-lines.

“A woman gently forces her lover to end his foreplay and to start his penetration.”

Ukiyo-e expert dr. Richard Lane comments the following on the original Hokusai design in Lovemaking at New Year’s (aka The Adonis Plant):

“Here a more mature couple – husband and pregnant wife – are seen at passionate foreplay: the woman urging the playful man to get on with the main act – forthwith directing him in the details of every desired variation of penetration. This is another of the most effective designs in the set,....”.

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Meiji Era Shunga – Terukata – After Hokusai – Unfaithful Wife – c.1899.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Date: c.1899.
Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/2” x 9 4/5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold otherwise excellent state.

Look for the magnificent printing details such as the use of ‘bokashi’-shading, black lacquer (urushi-e) and the highly detailed carving of the individual hair-lines.

“A man is trying to penetrate his female lover. The black teeth of the woman indicate that she’s either a widow or married. It is suggested by shunga expert Richard Lane that she is unfaithful.”

Ukiyo-e expert dr. Richard Lane comments the following on the original Hokusai design in Lovemaking at New Year’s (aka The Adonis Plant) :

“Here we find yet another passionate matron – widow or unfaithful wife – swooning under the embraces of her mature lover. The conversation – presumably by Hokusai himself – is again not very edifying, consisting of the female’s directions to her lover regarding the proper placement and manipulation of his ample phallus.

A rather similar composition will be found in an earlier Hokusai illustration, from Kinoe no komatsu, but again the composition is a loose one, overly dominated by the baggage and parasol at rear. One might note here the differing psychological effect, depending on whether the lover has actually made entry or not: often it is the latter depiction that is the more sexually stimulating – expectation being, so to speak, a stronger emotion than fulfillment”.

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Meiji Era Shunga – Terukata – After Hokusai – Pearl Diver – c.1899.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Date: c.1899.
Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/2” x 9 4/5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold otherwise excellent state.

Look for the magnificent printing details such as the use of ‘bokashi’-shading and the highly detailed carving of the individual hair-lines.

“An ama (aka. awabi) diver is having intercourse with her lover. The basket with her catch stands behind them.”

Ukiyo-e expert dr. Richard Lane comments the following on the original Hokusai design in Lovemaking at New Year’s (aka The Adonis Plant):

“The print is literally filled to the edges with this loving pair of fisher folk, a basketful of sea-shells seen at left. The diving-girl insists that the rumors of an affiar with another fisherman are lies – and her lover agrees to leave the matter unsettled as he enjoys a passionate bout of sex. The fisherman’s stylized cloak and the diving-girl’s long, raven locks add much to the effectiveness of the design, balanced by the red petticoat and the basket of shellfish (a traditional symbol of the vulva).

Although it is probably not Hokusai’s source, let us turn for a change to the world of Kamigata [Kyoto/Osaka] ukiyo-e, to a minor masterpiece of Settei, on the same theme, but dating from fully two generations earlier. Here, the fisherman makes love at boat side, baskets of shellfish at left, and distracting child at right. (As will be noted from the text at top, this volume is an erotic parody of kaibara Ekken’s classic didactic work, Onna daigaku)”.

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Meiji Era Shunga – Terukata – After Hokusai – Coitus A Tergo – Doggy Style – c.1899.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Date: c.1899.
Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/2” x 9 4/5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold otherwise excellent state.

Look for the magnificent printing details such as the use of ‘bokashi’-shading and the highly detailed carving of the individual hair-lines.

“A couple portrayed in the “doggy-style” position with the man resting his head on the back of his lover.”

Ukiyo-e expert dr. Richard Lane comments the following on the original Hokusai design in Lovemaking at New Year’s (aka The Adonis Plant):

“A nude couple is here depicted coupling in “dog fashion,” delighted to find themselves all alone, as the master has gone out for the evening, leaving his wife free to dally at leisure with her somehow the print is lacking in “color” compared to the rest of the series: a peril inherent in the color print when it turns to nude figures.

A rather similar scene appears in Hokusai’s shunga book Kinoe no komatsu, featuring, as usual, a more loose composition, with our attention directed to the mosquito-net and other details, thus detracting from the erotic effect. The intensity of the scene is also reminiscent of the masterpiece of Enmusubi Izumo no sugi...”

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Meiji Era Shunga – Terukata – After Hokusai – Famous Oral Scene –

Egg Shaped Couple – c.1899.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Date: c.1899.
Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/2” x 9 4/5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold otherwise excellent state.

Look for the magnificent printing details such as the use of ‘bokashi’-shading and the highly detailed carving of the individual hair-lines.

“Terukata’s homage to Hokusai’s well-known oral scene from The Adonis Plant –series which is characterized by the exceptionally bold placement and the enormous scale of the figures.”

Ukiyo-e expert dr. Richard Lane comments the following on the original Hokusai design in Lovemaking at New Year’s (aka The Adonis Plant):

“Again we view a totally nude couple, but in this case the soixante-neuf, “69” position renders a lively variety to the scene – heads and pillow neatly balancing the composition. The theme is again am unfaithful wife and lover – a perennial subject which seems to have appealed to the readers of the time: probably as much to the female as to the male.

For some reason or other – possibly related to Shinto concepts of ritual cleanliness? – this particular position is rather rare in classical shunga. I can only think, offhand, of the medieval Koshibagaki zoshi scroll, a source well known to all Japanese artists; and of a notable print by Hokusai’s pupil Hokusu, plus the masterful illustration by Shunko (fig. 41 – Pl.142 in the Foreigners volume of The Complete Ukiyo-e Shunga -series), in which a tengu adroitly employs both long nose and tongue with a wayward married woman: the purpose of this method of sex being contraception – “For I should loath to have a half-breed rengu born, to be placed in a circus sideshow....”

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Meiji Era Shunga – Terukata – After Eiri – Mystery Man – c.1899.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Date: c.1899.
Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/2” x 9 4/5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold otherwise excellent state.

Look for the magnificent printing details such as the use of ‘bokashi’-shading and the highly detailed carving of the individual hair-lines

“A striking interpretation with aesthetic changes by Terukata of Eiri’s and Utamaro’s similar earlier designs featuring a copulating couple with the male lover almost completely covered by the screen.”

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> Utamaro’s design from the Utamakura -series and Eiri’s interpretation of that design.

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Meiji Era Shunga – Terukata – After Eiri – Desperate Housewife – c.1899.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Date: c.1899.
Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/2” x 9 4/5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold otherwise excellent state.

Look for the magnificent printing details such as the use of ‘bokashi’-shading and the highly detailed carving of the individual hair-lines.

“A mature woman bites into a cloth in sheer ecstasy during an erotic encounter with a young lover. Their wild entangled pose is an indication of the impulsivity of their love bout. The woman is wearing toed socks (tabi) and a white paper hat (ageboshi) which was typically worn by women to protect their hairstyles.”

Ukiyo-e expert dr. Richard Lane comments the following on the original Eiri design in Models of Calligraphy:

In the first appearance of a matronly heroine in this series, we find a widow – with shaven eyebrows and clipped hair – sporting with a handsome young shop-clerk, mounting him with all her might. The reversal of positions, together with the rather shibui appearance of the mature woman, lends a certain static quality to the design: but it would seem that wealthy ladies of the merchant and samurai classes formed a goodly part of the clientele of shunga – and they doubtless found such scenes exhilarating, to say the least”.

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Meiji Era Shunga – Terukata – After Eiri – Full Monty – c.1899.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Date: c.1899.
Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/2” x 9 4/5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold otherwise excellent state.

Look for the magnificent printing details such as the use of ‘bokashi’-shading and the highly detailed carving of the individual hair-lines.

“A famous design depicting a completely naked couple in the act of love. Terukata’s ascetic interpretation of Eiri’s bathhouse scene, lacks all its environment details such as a wooden tub, a cup of tea and a shell of lubricant.”

Ukiyoe-expert dr. Richard Lane comments the following on the original Eiri design in Models of Calligraphy:

“In a quite different scene of plebeian life, a slightly plump harlot of the lower class receives a night visit from her lover, whose naked form she tries to cover with a cloak. Strangely enough, however, there is very little of the “plebeian” evident in this scene: to the ukiyo-e artist, in fact, there is – considering that this was a feudal age – a curious lack of distinction between the social classes. Indeed – in shunga at least – the upper classes are depicted in pretty much the same situations as their social inferiors: an egalitarian approach that goes back rather far in Japanese art and esthetics.

(In the related Utamaro scene, the girl is an ordinary maidservant, depicted with rotund face – resembling the comic female deity O-Tafuku; and as in much of the Utamaro album, one does not really feel very strongly attracted to the protagonists. I may add that there is, interestingly enough, a signed Eiri hashira-e (pillar print) design that depicts a real goddess, Benten, and bears more than superficial resemblance to the same artist’s shunga girl”.

Reference: Illustrated on p.217 in Japanese Erotic Fantasies by C. Uhlenbeck.

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Meiji Era Shunga – Terukata – After Eiri – Streetwalker – c.1899.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Date: c.1899.
Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/2” x 9 4/5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold otherwise excellent state.

Look for the magnificent printing details such as the use of ‘bokashi’-shading and the highly detailed carving of the individual hair-lines.

“An older prostitute receives a client in her private room.”

Ukiyoe-expert dr. Richard Lane comments the following on the original Eiri design in Models of Calligraphy:

“To the reader who knows Edo life, the next scene may come as something of a shock: from the exalted world of the court ladies we are flung suddenly to the bottom rung of Edo society. Here we find a fair yotaka (“night-hawk,” i.e., streetwalker) accommodating a lusty client in a lumberyard by the bank of the Sumida River. This is the very world of lower-class pleasure which Eiri so successfully envisioned in his non-shunga prints”.

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