Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) - Shunga p3120-p3127

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 (1797-1861)

Shunga p3120 ~ p3127.

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Kuniyoshi – A Rare Four Page Fold Out Scene – Vast Room – c.1837.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861). Shunga (Erotic picture). Date: c.1837. Size: 20 2/3” x 8 3/4” inches. Fine impression (with embossing and gold and silver pigments!), very good color and condition. Minor soiling, marks and flaws only! Series: ‘Shunshoku Irifune Cho’.

“A rare double image, covering four pages. It shows the inside of a vast room crowded with geishas going about a thousand chores, entertaining their clients, carrying trays laden with platters of food. One of the geishas is carrying an instrument case. On the far right two courtesans are spying through an opening in the wall following the activities in the other room while two of their colleagues in the foreground exchange tittle-tattle about it.”

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Kuniyoshi – Sparrows – Cosy Couple – c.1837.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861). Shunga (Erotic picture). Date: c.1837. Size: 10 4/5” x 8 1/2” inches. Fine impression (with embossing and gold and silver pigments!), very good color and condition. Minor soiling, marks and flaws only! Series: ‘Shunshoku Irifune Cho’.

“A couple is preparing for some love-making. To get cosy the man is pulling the blanket over them. The screen in the background portrays flying sparrows.”

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Important Kuniyoshi Scene – Wetting Fingers – c.1837.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861). Shunga (Erotic picture). Date: c.1837. Size: 10 4/5” x 8 1/2” inches. Fine impression (with embossing and gold and silver pigments!), very good color and condition. Minor soiling, marks and flaws only! Series: ‘Shunshoku Irifune Cho’.

“A male skillfully makes room to get access to the private parts of his female partner by holding one of her legs to the side while at the same wetting his fingers. An influential design that was used as inspiration by various members of the Utagawa school in the 1840s and 50s.”

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Kuniyoshi – Dragons – c.1837.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861). Shunga (Erotic picture). Date: c.1837. Size: 10 4/5” x 8 1/2” inches. Fine impression (with embossing and gold and silver pigments!), very good color and condition. Minor soiling, marks and flaws only! Series: ‘Shunshoku Irifune Cho’.

“A male lover is manually stimulating the genitalia of his partner. The huge blanket that covers the couple features various dragon motifs.”

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Kuniyoshi – High Class Courtesan - Tiger – c.1837.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861). Shunga (Erotic picture). Date: c.1837. Size: 10 4/5” x 8 1/2” inches. Fine impression (with embossing and gold and silver pigments!), very good color and condition. Minor soiling, marks and flaws only! Series: ‘Shunshoku Irifune Cho’.

“In this carefully composed design by Kuniyoshi he displays a riot of colour and intricate textile designs and is beautifully contrasted with the white of the woman’s leg. The tiger featured on the screen in the background seems to observe the couple’s activities carefully.”

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Kuniyoshi – Love Letters – Excited Courtesans – c.1837.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861). Shunga (Erotic picture). Date: c.1837. Size: 10 4/5” x 8 1/2” inches. Fine impression (with embossing and gold and silver pigments!), very good color and condition. Minor soiling, marks and flaws only! Series: ‘Shunshoku Irifune Cho’.

“Some excited courtesans leave their working area. One of them proudly takes a love letter of one of her clients out of her kimono and shows it to her colleagues Behind them walks a laborer holding a mast.”

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Kuniyoshi – Pre-Coitus Close-Up – c.1837.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861). Shunga (Erotic picture). Date: c.1837. Size: 5 2/3” x 8 2/3” inches. Fine impression (with embossing and gold and silver pigments!), very good color and condition. Minor soiling, marks and flaws only! Series: ‘Shunshoku Irifune Cho’.

“A superb pre-coitus anatomical close-up design.”

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Kuniyoshi – Beauty On The Pier – c.1837.

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Description:

Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861). Shunga (Erotic picture). Date: c.1837. Size: 5 2/3” x 8 2/3” inches. Fine impression (with embossing and gold and silver pigments!), very good color and condition. Minor soiling, marks and flaws only! Series: ‘Shunshoku Irifune Cho’.

“An excellent over-the-shoulder design of a sad bijin (beauty) standing on the pier as her male lover slowly moves away in a boat. A very nice detail by Kuniyoshi is the subtle placement of the hand of the woman holding her left shoulder.”

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