Shunga
Masterpiece - Chõkyõsai Eiri – Dutch Captain –
Dutchman
With Prostitute – c.1801.
Original antique Japanese color
woodblock print by Chõkyõai Eiri (act. 1789-1801). Shunga
(Erotic print).
Date: New Year 1801. Oban yoko-e size: 14 1/3” x 10” inches. Series: 'Models of Calligraphy
(Fumi no kiyogaki)‘.
Fine impression, very good
color and condition. Minor
marks and flaws only otherwise in a wonderful state.
Virtually full size.Wonderful use of metallic pigment
details.
“Through the window of a
brothel in Nagasaki we spy a Dutch captain having sex with a
Japanese courtesan. Incense burns in a vessel on the small
table to the right, and below it is a small paper sachet which
contains an aphrodisiac for women called nyõetsugan.
The Dutchman’s long cat-like fingernails are a striking
detail.
| References:
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p.146
(Ill.49a) in ‘Japanese Erotic Fantasies, Sexual Imagery
of the Edo Period’ by Chris Uhlenbeck
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p.345
(Ill.4) in ‘Japanese Erotic Art, The Hidden
World of Shunga’ by Ofer Shagan
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p.237
(Ill.6.75) in ‘Shunga, the Art of Love in Japan’
by Tom and Mary Evans
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p.327
(top) in ‘Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories
by Utamaro...etc.’ by Gian Carlo Calza
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p.400/401
(Ill.119) in ‘Shunga, Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art’ by
Timothy Clark
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p.12-31;
Hayashi and Lane 1995-2000, Vol.9; Hayashi and Lane 1995-2000,
suppl. Vol.1, p.124-6, No.200
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p.327-8;
Buckland 2010
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p.110-12,
Screech 2009, No.122
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Here
you can check out an article on Westerners portrayed in
shunga.
This
print has been included in the collections of countless
museums such as the
>>
British Museum
and
The Metropolitan Museum of Art !
One of
the Great Masterpieces of Shunga !
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on the Picture.