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Very Rare Old Shungabook - Utamaro School - c.1790.

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Large original antique Japanese color woodblock book Utamaro School, Shunga (Spring picture). Date: c.1780-1790.
Very good impressions, good colors and condition! Book size: 8 1/4" x 5 7/8" inches.
With 7 color diptychs and 2 single color illustrations (depictions of flowers) and some B&W textpages !
Explicit intimate scenes of couples in wonderful various settings !
Nicely executed use of gauffrage, highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !
Slightly faded colors, some wormholes in the upper margins, some rubbing, soiling and wrinkling but overall in a very good
condition for a shunga book this old! There's a publisher's stamp on one of the pages with a flower illustration !

Shungabooks from the 18th Century are very difficult to find and much sought after !

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Surimono Shunga Utagawa School 1860 - Trapped Young Couple.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa school, Shunga (Spring picture), Not signed. Surimono style. Circa 1860.
Very good impression, color and condition. Size: 3 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. Very slightly trimmed, backing, minor marks and flaws.
Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines and crisp key-block lines! Wonderful use of embossing, burnishing to black parts
and extensive use of silver pigments ! The cartouche symbolises a particular month of the year !

A young couple being trapped by two older women!

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Surimono Shunga Utagawa School 1860 - High Class Courtisan.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa school, Shunga (Spring picture), Not signed. Surimono style. Circa 1860.
Very good impression, color and condition. Size: 3 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. Very slightly trimmed, backing, minor marks and flaws.
Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines and crisp key-block lines! Wonderful use of embossing, burnishing to black parts
and extensive use of silver pigments ! The cartouche symbolises a particular month of the year !

A high-class courtisan (Oiran) with her client!

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Wonderful Shunga Catalogue - Japanese Erotic Fantasies -

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Wonderfully illustrated catalogue (2004) English. Hardcover 248pp. Size: 10 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches. Excellent condition.
Title: 'Japanese Erotic Fantasies' by G. Winkel and C. Uhlenbeck.

With 277 full colour illustrations of the prints shown at the largest shunga exhibition ever held in the world called "Lentelust" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands! There's an excellent historical overview (17th C. to Meiji period and beyond) of the genre with treatments on all the major Ukiyo-e masters such as Settei, Moronobu, Harunobu, Koryusai, Hokusai, Utamaro, Eiri, Shunchô, Kiyonaga, Shigenobu, Eisen, Eizan, Kunisada, Kyosai...etc.

There's all so a lot of attention to the social, historical and artistic context, the various impressions, techniques of composition, formats, toy-prints, voyeurism, homosexuality and the humour in the designs! In our opinion this book is the most beautifully illustrated and best reference in the shunga genre surpassing the somewhat dated ' Shunga, the Art of Love in Japan' by Tom and Mary Evans !

Unmissable for the shunga connoisseur! A future classic !

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Very Rare Shunga Hokusai Oban c.1812 - Sewing Box.

From Hokusai's first oban series: Brocade of the East !

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Beautiful original antique Japanese color woodblock Hokusai (1760-1849). Shunga (Erotic print). Very good condition, fine impression and colors.
Date: c.1812. Total size: 10" x 15" inches. Series: 'Azuma Nishiki ' (Brocade of the East). Depiction of an intimate couple! The woman leaning on a black sewing box while the man pulls up her kimono! There's a little bit of paper loss caused by the use of metallic pigment, slight centerfold, some tiny holes and staining, minor wear and soiling otherwise very good state with very fresh colors! Full size, extensive 'burnishing' to black parts! Nicely executed use of gauffrage and metallic highlights (on sewing-box and clothing)! Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines!
The love-making position of this couple was a very popular one among Ukiyo-e artists because it enabled a more naturalistic depiction of the genitalia and endowed the composition with a tension likened to a tightly strung bow! This design is from Hokusai's first oban series, and he made his most impressive shunga designs in this format!

References:
The ' Brocade of the East' -series is described by Richard Lane in his article: ' Love's Labour's Found : The Erotic of Hokusai ' on p.54 and 55 in the book ' Hokusai ' by Gian Carlo Calza.

Book No. 7 in the series 'Japanese Complete Ukiyo-e Shunga Series' by Richard Lane and Yoshikazu Hayashi is totally dedicated to the 'Brocade of East' -series! This famous set, consisting of 27 books, are a treatise of the most important shunga series of the Ukiyo-e ! A closer study on Hokusai's shunga designs in the oban format, like the deliberate composition, the complex placing of the kimono's and garment, reveal the genius of a great master!

Beautiful and very rare piece of art by one of the most famous artists in the history of Japan !

Tomioka Eisen.

Tomioka Eisen was born in Nagano prefecture, he went to Tokyo to study drafting and was employed by the army. Later he resigned from the army and became a pupil of Kobayashi Eitaku and a full time illustrator. Most of his works were illustrations for newspapers, kuchi-e and shunga! He is one of the most important woodblock artists of the Meiji period!

About Tomioka Eisen's work in shunga: "Although at a distance of almost a century and with a style and a poetic language by now quite old, we are therefore in front of a trial of subtle and allusive eroticism for certain verses similar to that of Utamaro..." (p. 168 in ' Shunga, the Erotic Art of Japan' by Marco Fagioli).

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Wonderful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - c.1900 - Mirror.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and fine colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 1/4" x 5 1/8" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple ! The mirror on the floor
suggests that the woman has been distracted while she was busy with her toilette ! The print is attached to a carton,
minor wrinkling otherwise very good state! Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts ! Nicely executed use of gauffrage !
Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has very fresh colors !

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Wonderful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - c.1900 - Tree.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and fine colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 1/4" x 5 1/8" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple with in background
a folding screen depicting a pine-tree! The print is attached to a carton, minor wrinkling otherwise very good state !
Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts! Nicely executed use of gauffrage ! Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has very fresh colors !

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Wonderful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - c.1900 - Weaving.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and fine colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 1/4" x 5 1/8" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple, a man is pleasing
a woman during her work ! The print is attached to a carton, minor wrinkling and soiling, otherwise very good state !
Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts! Nicely executed use of gauffrage ! Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has very fresh colors!

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Wonderful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - c.1900 - Drinking Tea.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and fine colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 1/4" x 5 1/8" inches.Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple drinking tea while
making love ! The print is attached to a carton, minor wrinkling and soiling, otherwise very good state! Full size and extensive
"burnishing" to black parts ! Nicely executed use of gauffrage ! Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has very fresh colors !

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Wonderful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - c.1900 - Crumpled Tissues

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and fine colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 1/4" x 5 1/8" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple ! The crumpled
tissues on the bed indicate that it's an insatiable affair! Backing remnants, minor wrinkling and soiling otherwise very good state !
Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts! Nicely executed use of gauffrage! Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has very fresh colors!

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Wonderful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - c.1900 - Waitress.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and fine colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 1/4" x 5 1/8" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple !
An aroused man forces himself on a waitress! The print is attached to a carton, minor wrinkling and soiling otherwise
very good state! Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts! Nicely executed use of gauffrage !
Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has very fresh colors !

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Wonderful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - c.1900 - Folding Screen.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and fine colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 1/4" x 5 1/8" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple near a folding screen !
Backing remnants, minor wrinkling and soiling otherwise very good state! Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts !
Nicely executed use of gauffrage ! Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has very fresh colors !

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Wonderful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - c.1900 - Peasant.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and fine colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 1/4" x 5 1/8" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple in the open air !
Backing remnants, minor wrinkling and soiling otherwise very good state! Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts !
Nicely executed use of gauffrage! Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines!

The print has very fresh colors !

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Wonderful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - c.1900 - Embrace.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and fine colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 1/4" x 5 1/8" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple in a tight embrace !
Backing remnants, minor wrinkling and soiling otherwise very good state! Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts !
Nicely executed use of gauffrage ! Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has very fresh colors !

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Wonderful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - c.1900 - Under the Blanket.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and fine colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 1/4" x 5 1/8" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple under a blanket !
Backing remnants, minor wrinkling and soiling otherwise very good state! Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts !
Nicely executed use of gauffrage and metallic pigments on different parts! Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has very fresh colors !

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Beautiful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - Meiji Period - Brown Kimono.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple !
The print is attached to a carton, minor wrinkling and soiling otherwise very good state! Full size, extensive "burnishing"
to black parts ! Nicely executed use of gauffrage! Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has striking fresh colors !

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Beautiful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - Meiji Period - Mosquito-net.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple relaxing under a
mosquito-net! The print is attached to a carton, minor wrinkling and soiling otherwise very good state ! Full size, extensive
"burnishing" to black parts ! Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has striking fresh colors !

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Beautiful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - Meiji Period - Masturbating Woman.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple !
A woman masturbates while she's watching a passionate couple behind the sliding door! The print is attached to a carton,
minor wrinkling and soiling otherwise very good state ! Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts !
Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has striking fresh colors !

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Beautiful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - Meiji Period - Insatiable Affair.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple !
The used tissues on the floor indicate that it's an insatiable affair ! The print is attached to a carton, minor wrinkling
and soiling otherwise very good state ! Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts! Nicely executed use of gauffrage !
Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has striking fresh colors !

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Beautiful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - Meiji Period - Couple.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple !
The woman assists her lover! The print is attached to a carton, minor wrinkling and soiling otherwise very good state !
Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts ! Nicely executed use of gauffrage !
Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has striking fresh colors !

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Beautiful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - Meiji Period - Young Couple.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of a young intimate couple !
The shungabooks on the garment suggest that they have been looking for some inspiration ! The print is attached to
a carton, minor wrinkling and soiling otherwise very good state ! Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts !
Nicely executed use of gauffrage ! Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has striking fresh colors !

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Beautiful Shunga - Eisen Tomioka - Meiji Period - Smoking a Pipe.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Eisen Tomioka (1864-1905). Very good condition, impression and colors.
Date: c.1900. Total size: 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of an intimate couple making love while
smoking a pipe! The print is attached to a carton, minor wrinkling and soiling otherwise very good state !
Full size, extensive "burnishing" to black parts! Nicely executed use of gauffrage !
Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines !

The print has striking fresh colors !

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