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Shunga Page 18.
ANTIQUE SHUNGA WOODBLOCK
Utamaro, Kitagawa ( 1754 - 1806 )
Japan Art Coevorden ( The Netherlands )
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p1920 ~ p1927
Utamaro Kitagawa - 1750-1806
p1919 - €750 - US$
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Oban Shunga - Utamaro - Under The Blanket - c.1800.
Description:
Antique Japanese color woodblock by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806). Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1800. Oban size (approx.): 15 1/5" x 10" inches. Very good impression, color and condition.
Centerfold, thin backing (out of precaution), a couple of tiny thinning spots, very minor soiling, marks and flaws.
Fresh colors for a print of this period with the fugitive blue still in tact and with nice use of gauffrage and
metallic pigment details.Full size.A woman is holding her lover while he is penetrating her from underneath a blanket.
p1918 - €750 - US$
Oban Shunga - Utamaro - Kissing Couple - c.1800,
Description:
Antique Japanese color woodblock by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806). Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1800. Oban size (approx.): 14 3/4" x 10" inches. Very good impression, color and condition.
Centerfold, thin backing (out of precaution), a couple of tiny thinning spots, very minor soiling, marks and flaws.
Fresh colors for a print of this period with the fugitive blue still in tact and with nice use of gauffrage and
metallic pigment details.Virtually full size.A married couple are kissing each other while having intercourse.
Behind the woman's back lays an opened shungabook which was used as inspiration to enhance their love-play.
p1917 - €700 - US$
Oban Shunga - Utamaro - Tobacco Pipe - c.1800.
Description:
Antique Japanese color woodblock by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806). Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1800. Oban size (approx.): 15 1/5" x 10" inches. Very good impression, color and condition.
Centerfold, thin backing (out of precaution), a couple of tiny thinning spots, very minor soiling, marks and flaws.
Fresh colors for a print of this period with the fugitive blue still in tact and with nice use of gauffrage and
metallic pigment details.Full size.A woman is disturbed by her man while she was reading a book and smoking a pipe.
p1743 ~ p1755
Kitagawa Utamaro ( 1753-1806 )
p1771 - €850 - US$
Shunga - Utamaro - Rape - Tattooed Assailant - Ehon Hana Fubuki - c.1802.
Description:
Antique Japanese color woodblock Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806). Shunga (Erotic print). Date: 1802.
Hanshibon size: 11" x 9 1/3" inches. Series: 'Ehon hana fubuki (Picture-book of Flowers in Violent Bloom)'.
Author: Utamaro (text in illustrations) and Jippensha Ikku (1765-1831). Fine impression, color and very good condition. Minor soiling only. Very fresh colors for a print of this period.A garden is the notorious setting of an unvoluntarily sex encounter with two men forcing themselves upon a frightened woman. Her man is restrained lying underneath them. One of the assailants sports a tattoo on his upper right arm of a skeleton playing a shamisen (three-stringed instrument). Hana fubuki was simultaneously published in polychrome and in black-and-white versions.
"...The use of color is truly remarkable, and the carving is outstanding in its precision and skill. Extraordinary skill was required, for example, to express the flowing beauty of precisely combed hair. Perhaps because by the time Utamaro created Hana fubuki, he had nearly 20 shunga books under his belt, the compositions offer no novelty. But in this splendid setting, Utamaro's men and women come alive and free in a luxurious paradise. (...) In prints, Utamaro's art may have peaked in 1796 and subsequently declined, as the conventional wisdom has it. During precisely those years, however, his shunga works attained a maturity and mellowness that has no rivals". (Yoshikazu Hayashi in Vol. 18 of 'The Complete Ukiyo-e Shunga' )
Reference:
Illus.44 on p.66/67 in 'The Complete Ukiyo-e Shunga (Vol.18)' by Richard Lane and Yoshikazu Hayashi.Among the best shunga work Utamaro created !
p1478 - €
- US$
Kitagawa Utamaro - c.1800
Mosquito Net
Small Infants - Breastfeeding.
Description:
Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806). Shunga. Date: c.1800.
Size: 8 3/4" x 10 2/3" inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Backing, very minor soiling, 3 very small professionally repaired wormholes (mainly in the border!).
Very minor marks and flaws.
A lovely family scene depicted from behind a mosquito-net.
The husband is penetrating his wife while she's breastfeeding their youngest child.
The older boy is whining and has seperated himself from his parents.
Look for the newborn's little hand pinching in his mother's chest !
p1385 - €
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 - €2500 - 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 - €950 - 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 - € 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 - € 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 - € 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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