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Shunga - Erotic ( Art ) - Japan

Antique  Shunga  Woodblock

Shunga, Japanese woodblock print, Hokusai, Kunisada, Utamaro, Kuniyoshi. Harunobu, Koryusai, Eisen.Utagawa school,Torii.

 

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Shunga - Couple - Utagawa School - c.1840.

Shunga - Couple - Utagawa School - c.1840.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock print Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1840.Size: 8 2/3" x 7 1/2" inches. Fine impression, very good color and condition. A small wormhole,
very minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws otherwise very good state! Wonderful use of gauffrage and
'bokashi' -shading ! 

Depiction of an intimate couple. Look for the dazed expression on the man's face !


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Shunga - Folding Screen - Utagawa School - c.1840.

Shunga - Folding Screen - Utagawa School - c.1840.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock print Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). 
Date: c.1840.Size: 8 2/3" x 7 1/2" inches. Fine impression, very good color and condition. A small wormhole, 
very minor wearand soiling otherwise very good state! Wonderful use of gauffrage and 'bokashi' -shading ! 

Intimate couple behind a folding screen !


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Very Rare Shunga - Utagawa School - Macabre Scene - Ghost - Blood - c.1840.

Very Rare Shunga - Utagawa School - Macabre Scene - Ghost - Blood - c.1840.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock print Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1840. Size: 8 2/3" x 7 1/2" inches. Fine impression, very good color and condition. A small wormhole,
very minor wear and soiling otherwise very good state! Wonderful use of gauffrage and 'bokashi' -shading ! 
A bizarre and macabre design depicting a bold headed man taken by surprise as a female ghost wrings 
out the blood from a piece of hair !

Very Rare !


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Very Rare Shunga - Utagawa School - Bloody Murder Scene -  c.1840.

Very Rare Shunga - Utagawa School - Bloody Murder Scene -  c.1840.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock print Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1840.Size: 8 2/3" x 7 1/2" inches. Fine impression, very good color and condition. A small wormhole,
very minor wear and soiling otherwise very good state! Wonderful use of gauffrage and 'bokashi' -shading ! 
A highly unusual and violent shunga design !

Very Rare !


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Very Rare Shunga - Utagawa School 

Violent Cruxifiction Scene - Foxfire - Toy Print - c.1840.

Very Rare Shunga - Utagawa School - Violent Cruxifiction Scene - Foxfire - Toy Print - c.1840.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock prints Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1840. 
Size: 8 2/3" x 7 1/2" inches. Fine impression, very good color and condition. A small wormhole, very minor wear and soiling 
otherwise very good state! Wonderful use of gauffrage and 'bokashi' -shading ! A highly unusual scene depicting two cruxifiction 
scenes (in twice!) involving a partly nude male and female nailed to a board ! The setting is probably near the surroundings of the 
Kurosuke Inari shrine. The association with Inari and foxes is accentuated by the inclusion of a burning kitsunebi, 'fox-light' or 
will-o'-the-wisps, near the protagonists. Look for the comical facial expression on the fishing basket !

An extremely rare shunga design !


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Extremely Rare Utamaro Shunga Masterpiece - Homo-Erotic - c.1803.

Extremely Rare Utamaro Shunga Masterpiece - Homo-Erotic - c.1803.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock prints Utamaro (1753-1806). Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1803. 
Half-size oban yoko-e size (O-tanzakuban yoko-e) : 6 1/2" x 14" inches. Very good impression, color and condition. 
A slight vertical album fold, minor creases, marks and flaws otherwise a very well preserved print ! 
Full size, no repairs and wonderful use of gauffrage !

The young boy depicted here is a so called temple page ('chigo' or 'terakosho' ), they were available to monks, who were regarded without censure as among the most avid adherents to the so called ' Way of the youth'.

As often with male-male depictions in Japanese shunga, one of the depicted persons - taking the active role - is an older man ('nenjo' ). The receptive partner ('wakashu' ) was invariably a pre-pubescent or pubescent boy or a young man who has not yet shaved off his forelock, a sign in Japanese society that he had not yet come of age. Male-male relationships, within the samurai class and in monasteries between monks and their young acolytes, were a common phenomenon in Tokugawa Japan, as was prostitution among young kabuki actors of female roles.

The size of this very rare print is quite uncommon: a half-size horizontal oban design would have been carved on one half of a woodblock, with another design carved from the other. This design is most likely from a set of twelve prints issued late in Utamaro's life ! Look for the inro on the floor behind the young man's head !

Another design from this series is housed in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - c.1850.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock prints Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1850-1860. Size: 9 1/2" x 7" inches. Very good impressions, colors and condition.
Some very minor wear and soiling. Some very small binding holes otherwise very good state ! 
Wonderful use of gauffrage, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! 

Very nice shunga prints depicting intimate couples in various settings during the festival season !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - Snowscene - Samurai - Tomb - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga - Snowscene - Samurai - Tomb - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). 
Date: c.1870-' 80. Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 1/4" x 5" inches.
Wonderful deluxe shunga with extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 
'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! A young girl is sleeping against a 
tomb while she's being approached by a sneaky older samurai !  

Beautiful erotic snow scene !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - Two Women - Masturbating Woman - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga - Two Women - Masturbating Woman - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). 
Date: c.1870-' 80. Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 2/3" x 5 1/4" inches.
Wonderful deluxe shunga with extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 
'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! Two young women are peeking from 
behind a folding screen !  

Delightful Meiji scene !


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Kunisada School - Rare Shunga - Flying Angel Playing Drum - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Rare Shunga - Flying Angel Playing Drum - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1870-' 80. Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 1/2" x 5 1/8" inches.
Wonderful deluxe shunga with extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing,
'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! A flying angel is playing on a
drum while exposing her private parts !  

A very rare Meiji scene !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - Samurai - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga - Samurai - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870-' 80. 
Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 3/4" x 8 1/3" inches. Wonderful deluxe shunga with extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! A samurai in an intimate embrace with a courtisan !  

Beautiful Meiji scene !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - Two Angels - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga - Two Angels - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870-' 80. 
Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 3/4" x 8 1/3" inches. Wonderful deluxe shunga with 
extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual 
hair-lines ! Two angels (one of them playing an instrument!) are tempting a man who is sitting on the top of a mountain !  

A wonderfully mysterious Meiji design !


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Kunisada School - Very Rare Shunga - Erotic God - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Very Rare Shunga - Erotic God - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870-' 80. 
Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 3/4" x 8 1/3" inches. Wonderful deluxe shunga with 
extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! A rock shaped erotic god accompanies an intimate couple !  

A startling and very rare Meiji design !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - Archer - Two Couples - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga - Archer - Two Couples - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). 
Date: c.1870-' 80. Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 3/4" x 8 1/3" inches. 
Wonderful deluxe shunga with extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading 
and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! A depiction of two intimate couples in an unusual setting. 
One couple is having sex in the open air seperated from the other intimate couple who are indoors ! 
The man outside is an archer wearing his bow on his back !  

A great Meiji design !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - Man With Angel - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga - Man With Angel - c.1870. 

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870-' 80. 
Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 3/4" x 8 1/3" inches. Wonderful deluxe shunga with 
extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! A man having intercourse with an angel !  

A magnificent Meiji scene !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - Sexual Education - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga - Sexual Education - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870-' 80. 
Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 3/4" x 8 1/3" inches. Wonderful deluxe shunga with 
extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! A young boy is getting practical sexual education while watching an intimate couple !  

A very comical Meiji design !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - Young Boy And Courtisan - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga - Young Boy And Courtisan - c.1870. 

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870-' 80. 
Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 3/4" x 8 1/3" inches. Wonderful deluxe shunga with 
extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! A young boy is initiated by a courtisan in the grown-up world !  

A rare Meiji scene !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - On The Verandah - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga - On The Verandah - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870-' 80. 
Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 3/4" x 8 1/3" inches. Wonderful deluxe shunga with 
extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! A client and two courtisans are sitting on the verandah !  

A beautiful Meiji scene !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - Naughty Young Boy - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga - Naughty Young Boy - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870-' 80. 
Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 3/4" x 8 1/3" inches. Wonderful deluxe shunga with 
extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! Depiction of a curious and forwarding young boy and his encounter with a courtisan ! 

A striking Meiji design !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - Couple On A Boat - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga - Couple On A Boat - c.1870. 

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870-' 80. 
Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 3/4" x 8 1/3" inches. Wonderful deluxe shunga with 
extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! An intimate couple on a boat accompanied by a young child ! 

A very interesting Meiji scene !


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Kunisada School - Shunga - Samurai Near A lake - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga - Samurai Near A lake - c.1870. 

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870-' 80. 
Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 8 3/4" x 8 1/3" inches. Wonderful deluxe shunga with 
extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! A samurai having an intimate encounter in the open air near a lake while being watched by a boy standing in the back of a reed-land! 

A spectacular Meiji design !


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Kunisada School - Shunga

Large And Marvellous Interior Scene - Threesome - c.1870.

Kunisada School - Shunga Large And Marvellous Interior Scene - Threesome - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kunisada) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870-' 80. 
Fine impression, colors and condition. Flawless state! Size: 18 1/3" x 8 1/3" inches. Wonderful deluxe shunga with 
extensive use of gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, burnishing, 'bokashi'-shading and detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! A magnificently complex interior scene two intimate encounters including a threesome !  The use of pigments, gauffrage etc.. is simply amazing ! 

 An extraordinarly beautiful Meiji scene !


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Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Frontcover - Courtisan Under Umbrella - c.1890.

Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Frontcover - Courtisan Under Umbrella - c.1890. 

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905). Shunga (Erotic print). 
Date: c.1890. Fine impression, very good colors and condition. Size: 7 2/5" x 5" inches. 
Binding holes, some very minor wear, staining and soiling, slight traces of vertical centerfold ! 
Beautifully detailed with the use of gauffrage, 'bokashi'-shading and silver pigments ! 
Wonderful frontcover print depicting an high class courtisan (oiran) under an umbrella! 

Very nicely detailed Meiji print by one of the last great shunga designers Tomioka Eisen !


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Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Very Rare Copulation Close-up - c.1890.

Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Very Rare Copulation Close-up - c.1890.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905). Shunga (Erotic print). 
Date: c.1890. Fine impression, very good colors and condition. Size: 7" x 5" inches. 
Slight traces of vertical centerfold, very minor marks and flaws ! Beautifully detailed with the use 
of gauffrage, 'bokashi'-shading, silver pigments and oxidation (on the close-up insert of the woman's head) ! A wonderful anatomical design including a very rare copulation close-up ! 

Very nicely detailed Meiji print by one of the last great shunga designers Tomioka Eisen !


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Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Smoking Pipe - c.1890.

Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Smoking Pipe - c.1890. 

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905). Shunga (Erotic print). 
Date: c.1890. Fine impression, very good colors and condition. Size: 7 2/5" x 5" inches. 
Binding holes, some very minor wear, staining and soiling, slight traces of vertical centerfold ! 
Beautifully detailed with the use of gauffrage, 'bokashi'-shading and silver pigments ! 
A woman smokes a pipe while having intercourse with her lover ! 

Very nicely detailed Meiji print by one of the last great shunga designers Tomioka Eisen !


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Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Couple On Verandah - c.1890.

Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Couple On Verandah - c.1890. 

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905). Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1890. Fine impression, very good colors and condition. Size: 7 2/5" x 5" inches.
Binding holes, some very minor wear, staining and soiling, slight traces of vertical centerfold !
Beautifully detailed with the use of gauffrage, 'bokashi'-shading and silver pigments ! 
Depiction of an intimate couple by night on a verandah with in the background the moon ! 

Very nicely detailed Meiji print by one of the last great shunga designers Tomioka Eisen !


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Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Couple With Cat - c.1890.

Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Couple With Cat - c.1890. 

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905). Shunga (Erotic print). 
Date: c.1890. Fine impression, very good colors and condition. Size: 7 2/5" x 5" inches. 
Binding holes, some very minor wear, staining and soiling, slight traces of vertical centerfold ! 
Beautifully detailed with the use of gauffrage (on the cat!), 'bokashi'-shading and silver pigments ! 
Famous Eisen design with an unusual viewpoint on the intimate couple ! 
The playing cat is added to this impression which is a lovely detail ! 

Very nicely detailed Meiji print by one of the last great shunga designers Tomioka Eisen !


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Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - The Voyeur, A Woman And Her Dildo - c.1890.

Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - The Voyeur, A Woman And Her Dildo - c.1890.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905). Shunga (Erotic print). 
Date: c.1890. Fine impression, very good colors and condition. Size: 7 2/5" x 5" inches. 
Binding holes, some very minor wear, staining and soiling, slight traces of vertical centerfold ! 
Beautifully detailed with the use of gauffrage, 'bokashi'-shading and silver pigments ! 
Famous depiction of a girl masturbating with a dildo while being watched by a masturbating man 
behind a screen ! 

Very nicely detailed Meiji print by one of the last great shunga designers Tomioka Eisen !


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Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Mosquito Net - c.1890.

Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Mosquito Net - c.1890.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905). Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1890. Fine impression, very good colors and condition. Size: 7 2/5" x 5" inches.
Binding holes, some very minor wear, staining and soiling, a very small thinning spot in the upper
right margin, slight traces of vertical centerfold ! Beautifully detailed with the use of gauffrage
(on the mosquito-net and the woman's kimono!), 'bokashi'-shading and silver pigments !
A woman is drinking water from a well while an "impatient" hand comes from underneath the mosquito-net ! 

Very nicely detailed Meiji print by one of the last great shunga designers Tomioka Eisen !


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Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Masturbating Woman - Silhouette - c.1890.

Tomioka Eisen - Shunga - Masturbating Woman - Silhouette - c.1890.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905). Shunga (Erotic print). 
Date: c.1890. Fine impression, very good colors and condition. Size: 7 2/5" x 5" inches. 
Binding holes, some very minor wear, staining and soiling, slight traces of vertical centerfold !
Beautifully detailed with the use of gauffrage, 'bokashi'-shading and silver pigments ! 
Depiction of a woman masturbating while she's looking at the silhouettes behind the folding screen ! 

Very nicely detailed Meiji print by one of the last great shunga designers Tomioka Eisen !


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Tomioka Eisen - Unusual And Very Rare Shunga - Lovers In The Sky - c.1890.

Tomioka Eisen - Unusual And Very Rare Shunga - Lovers In The Sky - c.1890.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905). Shunga (Erotic print). 
Date: c.1890. Fine impression, very good colors and condition. Size: 7 2/5" x 5" inches. 
Binding holes, some very minor wear, red transfer staining and soiling, slight traces of vertical centerfold ! 
Beautifully detailed with the use of gauffrage, 'bokashi'-shading and silver pigments (on the stars and the moon) ! 
An extraordinarly rare design of two lovers flying to the air ! 

Very nicely detailed Meiji print by one of the last great shunga designers Tomioka Eisen !


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Shigenobu - Shunga - Oban - Willow Storm

Bickering Lovers - c.1820.

Shigenobu - Shunga - Oban - Willow Storm - Bickering Lovers - c.1820.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Yanagawa Shigenobu (1787-1832). Shunga (Erotic print). 
Oban yoko-e size: 10" x 15" inches. Date: c.1820. Series:' Yanagi no Arashi'  (Willow Storm). 
Very good impression (with gauffrage and metallic pigments), very good color and condition. 
Colors slightly faded, very slightly soiled, slight centerfold, minor marks and flaws otherwise very good state!

Reference: Vol.4 'Shigenobu, Yanagi no Arashi ' by Yoshikazu Hayashi.

This is the 7th design of the ' Willow Storm' -series.Yoshikazu Hayashi says in Vol.4 Shigenobu, 
Yanagi no Arashi:"A rendezvous between two bickering lovers. It is close to the style of the Utagawa school, 
but not quite. The compostion is explicitly designed to display the forcefully erect penis and the smallest 
detail of the woman's genitalia".

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"I believe that this particular set, however, is probably not only one of his masterpieces, but should also be 
included among the best works in Edo shunga history". (Yoshikazu Hayashi in Vol.4 Shigenobu, Yanagi no Arashi )

A wonderful explicit design from one of the most famous oban series in shunga !


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Utagawa School - Shunga - Moistening Fingers - c.1870.

Utagawa School - Shunga - Moistening Fingers - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa School. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870. 
Fine impression with gauffrage, colors and condition. Size: 8 1/2" x 8" inches. 
Some very minor marks and flaws otherwise wonderful state !  

Wonderful Meiji Shunga !


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Utagawa School - Shunga - Tissues - c.1870.

Utagawa School - Shunga - Tissues - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa School. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870. 
Fine impression with gauffrage, colors and condition. Size: 8 1/2" x 8" inches. 
Some very minor marks and flaws otherwise wonderful state ! 

Delightful Meiji Shunga !


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Utagawa School - Shunga - Child - c.1870.

Utagawa School - Shunga - Child - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa School. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870. 
Fine impression with gauffrage, colors and condition. Size: 8 1/2" x 8" inches. 
Some very minor marks and flaws otherwise wonderful state ! 

Lovely Meiji Shunga !


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Utagawa School - Shunga - Green Blanket - c.1870.

Utagawa School - Shunga - Green Blanket - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa School. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870. 
Fine impression with gauffrage, colors and condition. Size: 8 1/2" x 8" inches. 
Some very minor marks and flaws otherwise wonderful state ! 

Beautiful Meiji Shunga !


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Utagawa School - Shunga - Peeking Grandma - c.1870.

Utagawa School - Shunga - Peeking Grandma - c.1870.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa School. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1870. 
Fine impression with gauffrage, colors and condition. Size: 8 1/2" x 8" inches. 
Some very minor marks and flaws otherwise wonderful state ! 

Comical Meiji Shunga !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - On Top - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - On Top - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and very good condition. 
A small hole in the center (in the purple part of the kimono on the woman's back), very minor marks and flaws! 
Full size, magnificent use of pigments, bokashi shading and gauffrage ! 

Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Leaning Back - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Leaning Back - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage ! 

Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Hiding The Face - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Hiding The Face - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print).Date:  c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage ! 

Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Instrument - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Instrument - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage ! 

Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Mosquito Net - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Mosquito Net - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage !

 Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Grabbing - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Grabbing - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage !

 Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Sword - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Sword - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage ! 

Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Intimate - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Intimate - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage !

 Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Fresh Air - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Fresh Air - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage ! 

Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Secret Passion - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Secret Passion - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage !

 Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Bats - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Bats - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage !

 Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Verandah - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Verandah - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage ! You can find the Kuniyoshi 1840s impression of this design on this same 
page below !

Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Couple & Baby - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Couple & Baby - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880.
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments,
bokashi shading and gauffrage ! You can find the Kuniyoshi 1840s impression of this design on this same
page below !

Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Couple - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Couple - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880.
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. A small hole (in the windowframe)
and one very small thinning spot in the window! Full size, magnificent use of pigments, bokashi shading and
gauffrage ! You can find the Kuniyoshi 1840s impression of this design on this same page below !

 Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Relaxing - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Relaxing - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage! You can find the Kuniyoshi 1840s impression of this design on this same 
page below !

Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Smoking A Pipe - c.1880.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi School - Smoking A Pipe - c.1880.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa (Kuniyoshi) school. Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1880. 
Obon size: 11 1/2" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and condition. Full size, magnificent use of pigments, 
bokashi shading and gauffrage! 

Very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi  - Relaxing - Obon - c.1840.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi  - Relaxing - Obon - c.1840.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock prints Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1840. 
Obon size: 11" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and good condition. Some small wormholes (mostly in
margins!) but otherwise in a magnificent state with very fresh colors ! Wonderful use of metallic pigments and 
very detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! Nicely executed embossing (gauffrage) and 'bokashi"-shading !

A delightful scene !


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Shunga - Kuniyoshi  - Verandah - Obon - c.1840.

Shunga - Kuniyoshi  - Verandah - Obon - c.1840.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock prints Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1840.
Obon size: 11" x 9" inches. Fine impression, colors and good condition. Some small wormholes (mostly in
margins!) but otherwise in a magnificent state with very fresh colors ! Wonderful use of metallic pigments and
very detailed carving of individual hair-lines ! Nicely executed embossing (gauffrage) and 'bokashi"-shading !

A beautiful scene !


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Shunga - Eisen - Two Tobira-e Prints - c.1820 - Courtisan & Flowers.

Shunga - Eisen - Two Tobira-e Prints - c.1820 - Courtisan & Flowers.

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Two original antique Japanese color woodblock prints Eisen Keisai (1790-1848), Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1820s. Tobira-e size (Courtisan): 8" x 5 1/2" inches. Tobira-e size (Flowers): 8 1/3" x 5 2/3" inches.
Fine impression, very good colors and condition. Some minor wear, staining and soiling, the Courtisan print 
has a small thinning spot above the woman's head in the white part, minor marks and flaws but overall in a 
very good state with fresh colors ! Wonderful use of metallic pigments and very detailed carving of individual 
hair-lines ! Nicely executed embossing (gauffrage) and 'bokashi"-shading to the faces. One scene is a depiction 
of an Oiran (courtisan) and the other depicts flowers ! 

Eisen was a student of Eizan, he excelled in the shunga genre and his best work dates from this period (1820s) !


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Shunga - Eisen - c.1820 - Lacquer Cases - Hanshibon.

Shunga - Eisen - c.1820 - Lacquer Cases - Hanshibon.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock prints Eisen Keisai (1790-1848), Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1820s. Hanshibon size: 10 1/4" x 8 1/6"inches. Fine impression, very good colors and condition.
Some very minor wear, staining and soiling, minor marks and flaws but overall in a very good state 
with fresh colors! Wonderful use of metallic pigments and very detailed carving of individual hair-lines !
Nicely executed embossing (gauffrage) and 'bokashi"-shading to the faces. 

Eisen was a student of Eizan, he excelled in the shunga genre and his best work dates from this period (1820s) !


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Very Rare Utamaro - Fated Lovers - Puppet Theatre - 1802.

 Very Rare Utamaro - Fated Lovers - Puppet Theatre - 1802.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utamaro (1750-1806). Shunga (Erotic picture). 
Date: 1802. Series:'Michiyuki koi no futozao' .(On the Road: Love Songs for the Thick-necked Shamisen).
Size: 10 1/4" x  8 1/4" inches. Very good impression (with gauffrage), color and condition. 
Backing, some very small repairs, minor marks and flaws.

Utamaro's famous shunga ehon Michiyuki koi no futozao was inspired by theatrical dramas of the Japanese 
puppet theater, the 'Bunraku'. The subject is based on dramatized tales (yet based on true stories) of 'fated lovers'
who commit double 'love' suicide. The stories evolved into a line of dramas for 'Bunraku' and Kabuki theatre called
shinju mono (double-suicide plays) and by chronicles on famous lovers, such as Gompachi and Komurosaki.

Shunga designs by Utamaro are very rare and highly treasured !

 


 

 

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