Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“In a brothel two courtesans are gossiping about the activities in the room behind them.
Their colleague has sensed their exitement while the silhouet of her male client is visible through
the transparent shoji sliding doors.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture). 
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“Two oiran (high-class corutesans) animate an abiding client.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“An attentive courtesan (a hairpin rakishly between her teeth) inspects her surrounding while her client prepares for penetration

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“A passionate man graps both breasts of the woman holding them tightly while passionately kissing her on the mouth and penetrating her sideways. In the background a smoking censer adds to the dynamic of the image.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“In the dialogue of the Japanese text in this print the man tels how he enjoys paid sex by using his money freely. At the end after his orgasm he says: ”...Let’s do it again later. As usual, let’s do it four or five times before tomorrow morning. How do you want me to put it in? A pussy as good as yours is without compare!” After she replies: “Mmmm! Ah, oh yes! [etcetera...]

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“In a darkened storage room a couple have a secret intimate encounter. Their faces are partially illuminated 
as another girl leaves the room.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, very slight staining spot (margin), marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition. 
Minor wear and soiling, a staining spot in the margin, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“Superb scene of an Intimate couple on the verandah near a harbour.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Red publisher’s stamp (left upper margin). Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a 
very nice state !

“In a luxuriously decorated living room a male lover is penetrating his partner from behind.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“A dedicated man is focusing (look at his facial expression!) on the pleasure of his female lover while she firmly holds on to his legs. The turtles depicted on the lower part of the screen stands for longevity.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture). 
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition. 
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“A young male examines the private parts of his mature “sex instructor” after they have studied the shungabooks in front of them. A shamisen (a tree-stringed musical instrument) stands in the background.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, transfer staining (upper margin) marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“On the first floor of an apartment a couple is passionately making love. The woman is holding on to the bannister while directing the man’s penis to her private parts.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, two small staining spots (margin), marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“An entertaining image of a family scene. The man is preparing his tobacco pipe while his wife is seducing him. Their sleeping infant wears a characteristic hair-style of the day.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“A rare image portraying two adult females making love Striking is the tissue between their joined hands (probably to wipe off their body fluids). In the background one can see a folded kimono featuring 
a dragon motif.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws but overall in a very nice state !

“An inexperienced adolescent male examines the erogenous zones of a mature courtesan.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 6” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, tiny pinholes, minor marks and flaws.

“Two oiran (high-class corutesans) animate an abiding client.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 6” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, tiny pinholes, minor marks and flaws.

“A beauty is holding a tobacco pipe while her male lover gently touches her hair-pin.
She has blackened her teeth (ohaguro).”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836.Size: 6” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa ’(Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak).
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, tiny pinholes, minor marks and flaws.

“A nice okubi-e scene of a couple standing outside in the moonlight. A Japanese cuckoo (hototogisu) flying in front of the crecent moon. In Japan, it is believed that the cuckoo calls spirits to the next world.
It symbolizes the transience of life as well as loneliness and melancholy.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 6” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, tiny pinholes, minor marks and flaws.

“A rare erotic scene from nature involving flowers with phallus-shaped chalices.”

Reference: p.259 (Fig.41) in Japanese Erotic Art, the Hidden World of Shunga by Ofer Shagan

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 6” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, tiny pinholes, minor marks and flaws.

“A superb scene with flowers and a butterfly with phallus-shaped wings.”

Reference: p.254 (Fig.20) in Japanese Erotic Art, the Hidden World of Shunga by Ofer Shagan

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 6” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, tiny pinholes, minor marks and flaws.

“A crazy kacho-ga (pictures of birds and flowers) scene featuring a two-headed Paradise Flycatcher in flight.”

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic picture).
Date: c.1836. Size: 5 7/8” x 8 1/2” inches. Series: ‘Konote gashiwa (Two Aspects of Love/ Child’s-hand Oak)’.
Fine impression (with excellent use of gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition.
Minor wear and soiling, tiny pinholes, minor marks and flaws.

“A delightful scene featuring two paper dolls of an aristocratic male and female figure and a basket with shells (?).”