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Rare Utamaro - Festival Mask
Ehon Takara Gura - c.1805.
Description:
Antique original Japanese color woodblock Kitagawa Utamaro (1750-1806). Shunga (Erotic picture). Date: c.1805.
Series: 'Ehon takara gura'. Size: 10 1/2" x 8 1/6" inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition. Full size.
A very tiny hole (virtually untracable!) in the left panel. Very minor soiling, marks and flaws.
Two passionate lovers making love under a green blanket which is attached to a giant festival mask.
A comical detail is the observing look on the mask!
Literature: Utamaro, Kitagawa: Schatzkammer der Liebe. Ehon takara gura. By Franz Winzinger.A great shunga print from a famous and rare Utamaro series !
p875 - €2000 - US$
Extremely Rare Utamaro Shunga Masterpiece
Homo-Erotic - c.1803.
Description:
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 !
p804 - €800 - US$Very Rare Masterpiece Utamaro - 1805 - Shunga
Ninja - Hanshibon.
Description:
Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utamaro (1750-1806). Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1805.
Hanshibon size: 10 1/2" x 8 1/5" inches. Fine impression (with metallic pigments), colors and condition.
Very minor toning, virtually flawless state! From the book 'Ehon takara gura'.
An armed ronin (ninja) shines his lantern on an intimate couple! Look for the funny detail of the two running mice!
A similar design is reproduced in 'Shunga, the Art of Love in Japan' by Tom and Mary Evans on p232 (Illustr. 6.70) !An extremely rare masterpiece and one of Utamaro's best book print designs !
p368 - €895 - US$Original Utamaro Shunga c.1795. In a Boat.
Utamaro ( 1750-1806 )
Description:
Original antique Japanese single color woodblock Utamaro (1750-1806). Very good condition, color and impression. Date: c.1795. Total size: 6 1/2" x 14" inches. Shunga (Erotic print) depiction of a intimate couple in a boat! Embossing on the kimono of the man ! Margin trimming, centerfold (some separation and repair), a few small hole repairs, light wear and soiling, otherwise very good state! Utamaro together with Harunobu are the great masters of Ukiyo-e in the portrayal of femininity and love !A wonderful shunga design in a rare and unusual format !
p724 - €1000 - US$Unique Utamaro - c.1800 - Shunga - Westerner With Courtisan.
Description:
Original antique Japanese color woodblock Utamaro (1753-1806). Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1800.
Chubon size: 10 2/5" x 8 2/3" inches. Very good impression with metallic pigments, colors and near fine condition.
Some very minor soiling, marks and flaws ! A westerner (probably a Portuguese or Frenchman!)
is having intercourse with a courtisan ! Look for the Baroquian detail on the man's genitals !Ex-Ferry Bertholet collection !
A magnificent print of utmost rarity ( most probably the only one around ! ) by one of the greatest
Ukiyo-e masters Utamaro !
p815 - €350 - US$Very Rare Utamaro - Fated Lovers - Puppet Theatre - 1802.
Description:
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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