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Very Rare Hokusai Shunga - Sex Toy - c.1814.

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Very rare Japanse color woodblock Hokusai (1760-1849). Size: 8" x 10 1/2" inches.
Date: c.1814. Excellent impression (with gauffrage), color and condition.
Series: "Kinoe no komatsu" (Languishing for Love/ Young Pine Saplings).

Lovers at a climatic moment. The woman's blue crumpled undergarment is a favourite detail in Hokusai's shunga (it also appears in white and red). It adds a special accent to many of his erotic pictures, as do the intricately patterned robes. The man uses a sex toy called higozuiki, a dried taro (arum maculatum) stalk that was wound around the penis, supposedly to enhance the woman's enjoyment. ( p. 160 in 'Japanese Erotic Fantasies' by C. Uhlenbeck and M. Winkel )

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Famous Hokusai Shunga - Chinese Couple - c.1814.

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Very rare Japanse color woodblock Hokusai (1760-1849). Size: 8" x 10 1/2" inches.
Date: c.1814. Excellent impression (with gauffrage), color and condition.
Series: "Kinoe no komatsu" (Languishing for Love/ Young Pine Saplings).

A Chinese lover collects vaginal fluid with a ladle. A notion that foreigners - Chinese as well as Europeans -
were very keen on collecting vaginal fluids for medicinal or other uses, was very popular in Edo Japan
(see Screech 1999: 284-86 and Lane and Hayashi (1995-98/2000:vol. supplemental vol. 1, 85-8, pl.95-101).
(p. 161 in 'Japanese Erotic Fantasies' by C. Uhlenbeck and M. Winkel)

A very influential design by Hokusai treated in many books on shunga !

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Very Rare Hokusai Shunga - Writing - c.1814.

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A striking and comic design by one of the greatest Ukiyo-e artists !

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Very Rare Hokusai Shunga - Lesbian Couple - c.1814.

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Very rare Japanse color woodblock Hokusai (1760-1849). Size: 8" x 10 1/2" inches.
Date: c.1814. Excellent impression (with gauffrage), color and fine condition. Very minor soiling.
Series: "Kinoe no komatsu" (Languishing for Love/ Young Pine Saplings).

> This specific print can also be found on Wikimedia.

A famous design depicting two women having sex. One of them is wearing a dildo (harikata) !

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Shunga – Tomioka Eisen – Rape

Tied Woman – c.1890.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock print attributed to Tomioka Eisen (1864–1905).
Shunga (Erotic print).Date: c.1890s (Meiji Period). Chuban yoko-e size: 10 2/3” x 8 1/2” inches.
Fine impression (with use of metallic pigments and gauffrage), vivid color and very good condition.
Some traces of dirt and some staining. No backing and full size.

“A highly realistic and shocking portrait of rape with an unshaven rogue penetrating a binded and desperate woman. While his victim is in despair he calmly bites in one of her nipples. The woman’s particular hairdo is an indication of her high-class status.”

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A terrifying piece of art !

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Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉 1790 – 1848

Shunga – Eisen – Couple On A Boat – c.1822.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock print by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848). Shunga (Erotic print).
Date: c.1822. Oban yoko-e size: 14 1/5” x 9 3/4” inches. Series: 'A Light Spring Snow' (Haru no usuyuki).
Fine impression, very good color (with excellent use of metallic pigments!) and condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold, some slight staining and a couple of very tiny (tissue backed) holes.

“A great erotic scene from Eisen’s acclaimed A Light Spring Snow –series portraying a couple
making love on a pleasure boat.”

On this series: “In this album a diversity of love-making scenes are united through allusions to classical poems and historical tales, especially relating to Spring and the New Year. This album is unusual for the period in that many of the scenes are set en plein-air and not within the confines of establishments in the pleasure quarters. The printing is of an extremely high quality, with the frequent use of metallic pigments and gauffrage that is more typical of surimono. The album is dated in the preface.” (C. Uhlenbeck in Japanese Erotic Fantasies).

Eisen was an important artist, though not a particularly successful one. He studied painting at the Kano school and was later accepted at the studio of Kikugawa Eiji, the father of Eizan, with whom he became friends. It was during this phase that he became interested in ukiyo-e, Chinese painting and the works of Hokusai, whom he greatly admired. Eisen’s career began towards the end of the 1810s and though he also produced landscapes and pictures of famous places, his main focus was the human figure. He followed and in fact developed further the contemporary trend of representing women as vigorous and physically more realistic and solid. His courtesans wear sumptuous, highly decorated kimonos and increasingly grand and elaborate hairstyles. In his private life, Eisen is infamous for his bacchanalian parties at his own brothel. Here’s where he found his inspiration for drawing the courtesans and clients depicted in his bijin-ga and shunga.

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Rare Shunga Painting – c.1900 - Octopus And Ama Diver.

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Antique original erotic Japanese painting. Ink and color on silk. Date: Early 1900s. Artist unknown.
Size: 8 1/2" x 5 4/5" inches. Very minor marks or flaws only otherwise fine condition.

“A very nice and rare piece featuring an octopus performing cunnilingus on a pearl (ama or awabi) diver”.

The depiction of octopi in shunga refer to the erotic fantasies of Japanese women in ancient times in which an octopus was considered to be a great lover.

>Here you can find an article on Hokusai’s Octopus design.

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Meiji Period Shunga – Love Couple

Toshihide Migita 右田年英 c.1890.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Migita Toshihide (1862-1925). Date: c.1890.
Oban yoko-e size: 13” x 9 1/2” inches. Fine impression (with gauffrage), color and very good condition.
Very slight vertical centerfold and staining otherwise excellent state.

“A lovely print with very nice deluxe printing details portraying a beautiful young couple
making love in a dormitory.”

Toshihide was a Japanese artist who designed woodblock prints and paintings in a Western-style like fashion.
He studied ukiyo-e under Yoshitoshi and Western-style painting under Kunisawa Shinkuro.He is most well-known for his senso-e (war prints) in the triptych size which are considered to be influential cultural and historical documents to the First Sino-Japanese War an the Russo-Japanese War.

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Rare Meiji Shunga – Yoshitoshi School

Man With Dog – Bestiality – c.1860.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock designed most probably by a pupil of Yoshitoshi.
Date: c.1860s. Total size: 11 1/2” x 8 1/2” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Some minor wear and soiling otherwise very good state.

“In a gloomy cellar a pervert is having intercourse with a female dog”.

A design from the earlier part of the Meiji period before the changes in the aesthetic approach
with an unusual dominant placement of the text in the image.

> Check out more sinister scenes in shunga.

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Well-Known Meiji Shunga – Ikeda Terukata

Shocking Rape Scene – Tied Woman – c.1899.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Ikeda Terukata (1883–1921). Date: c.1899.
Size: 9 1/3” x 7” inches. Series: Yakumo no chigiri. Excellent impression, fine color and near fine condition.
Some minor marks and flaws, some wrinkling, wear and soiling otherwise very good state. Generous use of metallic pigments, gauffrage, urushi-e (black lacquer) and bokashi shading (tonal gradation) to emphasize the lovely quality of the kimono.

“A chilling rape scene with a man clasping the arms of a woman while forcefully penetrating her and greedily sucking one of her nipples. The wonderful use of color is a sinister contrast to the activities taking place in the eye of the beholder.”

It also has been suggested by the avid collector Ofer Shagan in his book Japanese Erotic Art, The Hidden World of Shunga (on p.448/ fig.39) that this series has been designed by the important Meiji artist Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905).

> Click here for an diverting article on rape scenes within the shunga genre.

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Famous Shunga – Utagawa Kunisada

Awabi Divers At Sea – c.1827.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865). Date: c.1827.
Size: 8 1/2” x 11 1/5” inches.Series: Kamigata koi shugyo. Fine impression, very good color and condition.
Some staining due to the use of metallic pigment otherwise fine. Excellent use of metallic pigments.

“A wonderful scene featuring four awabi (abalone) divers who are fishing for pearls. The knife one of them is holding between her teeth is for opening the oysters. Two other divers are squatting in front of a fire to dry themselves. The pearl diver who is jumping into the sea is neatly counterbalanced by the breaking waves on the rocks giving the design a dynamic force.”

A delightful and highly coveted design !

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Very Rare Shunga – Utagawa Kunimaru

Threesome With Lesbian Couple – c.1853.

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Original antique Japanese color woodblock by Utagawa Kunimaru (1760–1849). Date: c.1853.
Size: 9 1/2” x 11” inches.Series: Shikido 18 kajo. Fine impression, very good color and condition.
Some minor wear and soiling otherwise fine. Excellent use of metallic pigments and black lacquer.

“Two females are passionately kissing each other while a male is penetrating one of them and giving a ‘hand' to the other.”

Utagawa Kunimaru was a talented pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni and worked in Edo (nowadays Tokyo).
He was a painter and woodblock designer and is known for his portrayals of courtesans and actors and his illustrations for books. He also wrote haikai poems. His work is rather rare.

> Click here for an interesting article on lesbianism in shunga.

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Unique Old Shunga Painting – 17th Century – c.1670/80 – Aristocratic Couple.

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Antique Japanese erotic painting by an important artist of the seventeenth century. Painting on silk.
Date: c.1670/80.Size: 18" x 12 1/3" inches. Fine (very fresh) colors and condition. Minor marks and flaws only.
Gofun, the ‘Chinese white’ colorant derived from ground oyster shell, has been applied to delineate the female body.

Depiction of an aristocratic couple caught in the act of love. Painted in a magnificent figure style with expert control.
The detailed pattern (the white motif has been heightened with thick paint) of the man’s kimono is truly magnificent. Another great detail is the attention to the individual hair-lines of the protagonists which displays the great craftsmanship of the artist.

Extremely rare, very well preserved piece from the ‘primitive’ days of shunga !

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Very Rare Meiji Shunga –

Young Couple On Bike – c.1894.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock print by an unidentified artist. Date: c.1894-1905. Size: 10" x 6 3/4" inches.
Series: Takara no irifune (Treasure Ship Coming In). Title: Young Couple, April (Wisteria). Fine impression, color and condition. Minor marks and flaws only.

Young couple on a bike have an intimate appointment. In this design for April from the set Treasure Ship Coming In, the cartouche shows a woman giving a sign to her secret lover who is portrayed in silhouette.

Reference: p.459 (Fig.6) Shunga, Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art, Catalogue British Museum.

On this design:
“The young woman is likewise a female student, as we can deduce from the cartouche, where she is wearing hakama, the customary dress for female students, and riding a bicycle. Her partner is another representative Meijifigure, the schoolboy in military-style uniform. The cartouche was a popular convention in kuchi-e of the time, allowing the presentation of a diﬀerent point in time and the means for reflection on temporal progression. In thedialogue, the boy praises her skill at riding a bicycle. The wrapper for the set which this design comes from has the title Takara no irifune” (Shunga in the Meiji Era, the End of a Tradition. on p.266/ Fig.9 by Rosina Buckland)

Japanese woodblock prints featuring bikes are a rarity.

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Meiji Shunga – Peeking – c.1894.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock print by an unidentified artist. Date: c.1894-1905. Size: 10" x 6 3/4" inches.
Series: Takara no irifune (Treasure Ship Coming In). Fine impression, color and condition. Minor marks and flaws only.

A couple exploring each other’s genitals. The cartouche on the right shows the activities at an earlier stage with the man peeking on the woman who just came out the bathroom.

A wonderfully detailed design !

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Meiji Shunga – Umbrella – c.1894.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock print by an unidentified artist. Date: c.1894-1905. Size: 9 4/5" x 6 3/4" inches.
Series: Takara no irifune (Treasure Ship Coming In). Fine impression, color and condition. Minor marks and flaws only. Wonderful carving with metallic pigment details added to the woman’s kimono and underdress.

Woman is making love to her man while sitting on his lap. The cartouche on the right features the couple’s earlier activities with the woman holding an umbrella as she is tempted by her lover.

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Katsushika Hokusai – Tongue Kissing – The Jewelled Wig – c.1820.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Shunga (Spring picture). Date: c.1820.
Size: 10 1/5" x 8 3/4" inches. Series: Tamakazura (The Jewelled Wig). Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Very minor wear and soiling, some very tiny wormholes. Beautiful use of metallic pigments and embossing on the blanket.

Great design with a courtesan having intercourse with a regular (the tongue kissing is an indication!) client underneath a green blanket. The objects such as the tobacco pouch on the box behind them and the books laying near the woman’s head are ‘silent witnesses’ of their precoital activities. Look for Hokusai’s deliberate placement (a well-known stylistic addition of his!) of the blanket in the composition exposing the couple’s genitalia!

Tamakazura is one of Hokusai’s more obscure, less publicized book series. The title is apparently an allusion to Tamakazura (also known as Jewelled Flower Wreath), chapter 22 in the Tale of Genji.

> Click here for an article on the great Hokusai.

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Very Rare Shunga – Underwater Love – Awabi Divers – Cunnilingus -

Important Utagawa School Design - c.1833.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock by a very important pupil of the Utagawa School. Date: c.1833.
Obon size: 13 1/4" x 8 3/4" inches. Series: ‘Enseki zasshi’. Fine impression, very good color and condition.
Backing, faint vertical centerfold, some very small wormholes (backed), minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws.
Very highly detailed carving with excellent metallic details.

A distinguishing design combining various stylistic elements depicting a male awabi (abalone) diver performing “underwater cunnilingus” to a female awabi diver who is partially under water holding on to the boat. Look for the three-headed phallus statue in the below right corner!

A marvellous piece from a very rare and recently discovered shunga series from an up to now unknown but important artist (it could very well be designed by Kunisada) most probably commissioned by a wealthy merchant.

This whole series will be displayed for the first time at the shunga exhibition of the British Museum which will be held early 2014.

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Very Rare Shunga – Two Nasty Aristocrats – Important Utagawa School Design - c.1833.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock by a very important pupil of the Utagawa School. Date: c.1833.
Obon size: 13 1/4" x 8 3/4" inches. Series: ‘Enseki zasshi’. Fine impression, very good color and condition. Unbacked, faint vertical centerfold, minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws.
Very highly detailed carving with excellent metallic details.

Two pushy men of noble descent molest two women.

A beautiful piece from a very rare and recently discovered shunga series from an up to now unknown but important artist (it could very well be designed by Kunisada) most probably commissioned by a wealthy merchant.

This whole series will be displayed for the first time at the shunga exhibition of the British Museum which will be held early 2014.

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Very Rare Shunga – Couple On Verandah – Important Utagawa School Design - c.1833.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock by a very important pupil of the Utagawa School. Date: c.1833.
Obon size: 13 1/4" x 8 3/4" inches. Series: ‘Enseki zasshi’. Fine impression, very good color and condition.
Backing, faint vertical centerfold, minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws.
Very highly detailed carving with excellent metallic details.

On a verandah, an excited man with a cloth in his mouth, is seducing his wife.
The woman wears strikingly beautiful hair-pins which are an indication of her noble descent.

A fantastic piece from a very rare and recently discovered shunga series from an up to now unknown but important artist (it could very well be designed by Kunisada) most probably commissioned by a wealthy merchant.

This whole series will be displayed for the first time at the shunga exhibition of the British Museum which will be held early 2014.

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Shunga – Kuniyoshi School – Drinking Sake - Peeking Samurai – Masturbating Woman - c.1860.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock by a pupil of the Kuniyoshi School. Date: c.1860s. Size: 21 1/2" x 8 4/5" inches.
Fine impression, color and very good condition. Some tiny holes (professionally backed), minor marks and flaws. Wonderful use of metallic pigment and beautiful ‘bokashi’-shading to the faces.

A middle-aged couple are preparing for love-making while drinking sake and grabbing the tissues. They are being peeped on by a masturbating woman and an excited (look at the white underpants!) samurai. The flying swallows surrounded by blossom depicted on the folding sceen behind the couple is a reference to the spring season (see also P2060!).

A very nice and rare four-panel design !

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Shunga – Young Aristocratic Couple – Voyeurs – Utagawa School - c.1850.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock by a pupil of the Utagawa School. Date: c.1850. Size: 20 1/3" x 8 3/4" inches.
Fine impression, color and very good condition. Some paper loss due to the use of metallic pigments. Minor wear and soiling, marks and flaws. Wonderful use of metallic pigment and gauffrage.

A young aristocratic couple being peeped on by two excited young women who are standing behind a wall. Visible through a window in the backrground another couple is approaching hesitantly. The back wall, partially covered by the folding screen, is decorated with a swallow perched on a twig surrounded by blossom which refers to the spring season (shunga lit. means ‘spring picture’).

A lovely four-panel composition featuring an interesting overview of various spaces.

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Two Unique Erotic Scroll Paintings – Shunga Makimono –

Intimate Couple – Seven Lucky Gods Having An Orgy – c.1910s.

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Two antique Japanese scroll paintings (makimono-e) by a very talented anonymous artist.
Date: c.1910s (Taisho era, 1912-1926). Total size (scroll): 53" x 17 1/2" inches. Pigment on silk.
Size painting (intimate couple): 16 1/2” x 14 2/3” inches. Size painting (seven lucky gods): 16 1/5” x 14 2/3” inches.
Size storage box (L x B x H): 20 2/3” x 3“ x 3“ inches. Excellent color and condition. Some very minor marks and flaws
only otherwise in a magnificent state. Includes the original storage box ( see picture ! )

A lovely and highly decorative erotic scroll with humorous and even homo-erotic undertones which will be an eye-catcher in any room !

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Oban Shunga – Hokusai School – Aristocratic Couple - c.1890.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock Hokusai school (designed by unidentified but important Meiji master).
Shunga (lit. Spring picture). Date: c.1890. Oban yoko-e size: 14 1/2” x 10” inches.
Excellent impression, fine color and very good condition. Full size. Some minor soiling, browning, marks and flaws. Wonderful use of gauffrage (embossing) and metallic pigments (look for the black robe of the man!).
Highly detailed carving of individual hair-lines.

A highly detailed Meiji print of an aristocratic couple (as indicated by the shaved eyebrows, specific hairstyle and the black teeth of the woman) seducing each other inspired on Katsushika Hokusai but designed with the genuine and original touch of a true master. The woman holds on to the fan with an ecstatic expression on her face.
Look for the subtle depiction of the male and female genitals.

> Articles on shunga and Japanese woodblock prints can be found if you click on this link !

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Shunga – Masturbating Woman – Meiji - c.1880.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock by unidentified artist. Shunga (lit. Spring picture). Date: c.1880.
Size: 7” x 5” inches. Fine impression, color and very good condition.
Some minor wrinkling and soiling, marks and flaws only. Wonderful use of gauffrage (embossing) and metallic pigments !

A woman is masturbating herself while reading a shungabook for inspiration. In her excitement she bites in a handkerchief.

A very nice piece of a popular theme !

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Shunga – Rare Complete Koban Set Of 12 – Kunisada- c.1840.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock Kunisada school (pupil of Kunisada). Shunga (lit. Spring picture).
Date: c.1840s. Koban size (each print): 5” x 3 3/4” inches. Size wrapper: 6 1/5” x 4 2/5” inches.
Fine impression, color and condition. Wonderful use of gauffrage (embossing) and metallic pigments !

A nice and increasingly rare complete set of 12 koban sized shunga featuring
various scenes of intimate couples.

The set also includes a wrapper which depicts a four-case > inro (portraying a swallow and moon)
and ojime (cord fastener) depicting a dancing child.

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Rare Design - Utagawa School – Octopus And Awabi Divers - c.1850.

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Antique Japanese b&w woodblock print by the Utagawa School (unidentified artist).
Date: c.1850. Size: 9 1/2” x 7” inches. Fine impression and near fine condition.
Some tiny binding holes in margin, minor marks and flaws only.

Amusing design featuring an octopus fooling around with a lot of awabi (abalone) divers.

> Click here for an article on lesbian sex in shunga including awabi divers (the 8th and 10th design)

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Rare Shunga – Utagawa Kuniyoshi – Unusual Beauty Close-up - c.1840s.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861).
Shunga (lit. Spring picture). Date: c.1840s. Size: 10 1/4” x 3 3/4” inches.
Fine impression, very good color and condition. Very slight centerfold, some very minor paper loss (barely visible!) due to the use of metallic pigment.
Nice use of gauffrage (embossing) and metallic pigments!

A print in an unusual format featuring a magnificent design of an excited courtesan with her vagina visible.

A highly detailed delicate piece of art !

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Meiji Shunga – Ikeda Terukata – Masturbating Young Woman With Dildo - c.1900.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921). Shunga (lit. Spring picture).
Date: Meiji period (c.1900). Oban yoko-e size: 13 1/10” x 9 1/2” inches.
Excellent impression, fine color and near fine condition. Some minor rubbing and soiling, marks and flaws only.
Nice use of gauffrage (embossing) to the white fabric of the kimono !

Reference:
Another impression of this piece can be found on p.239 (fig.102a) in Japanese Erotic Fantasies by Chris Uhlenbeck, Margarita Winkel...etc.

A retired young woman is masturbating herself using a > tortoise-shell dildo (harikata) while reading a shungabook.

She’s holding her sleeve in front of her mouth which is a gesture of suppressed excitement.

A print that is characteristic of shunga from the Meiji era with exquisite printing, a generous use of metallic pigments and bokashi (tonal gradation) to express the lovely quality of the kimono. The contour lines are equally refined.

Terukata was a pupil of Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908). While at Toshikata’s studio he met and later married Sakakibara Shoen (1888-1917), who as Ikeda Shoen became an artist in her own right. Terukata was a designer of kuchi-e and an illustrator of books and magazines. He also produced many horizontal plates, often in albums of twelve images, that featured the latest fashions for major department stores like the Mitsukoshi.
These were sometimes issued as a form of advertisement. Terukata died at the young age of 38.

One of Terukata’s best shunga designs...a Meiji masterpiece !

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Rare Surimono Shunga – Koikowa Shozan – Erotic Sake Bowl – Origami Figures - c.1850s.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock Koikowa Shozan (1821-1907). Shunga (lit. Spring picture).
Date: c.1850/’60. Size: 5 1/2” x 5 1/10” inches. Fine impression, color and condition.
Some minor wrinkling, marks and flaws only. Wonderful use of gauffrage (embossing) and metallic pigments !

A very rare > surimono (privately commisioned print) shunga portraying a kettle, origami figures and a
sake bowl depicting a close-up of male and female genitals.

Shozan already designed an almost similar design (without the origami figures) in b&w before !

You can find a very interesting comment on this particular shunga piece and others by the Danish art historian and erotic art fan Grith Gough if you > click here.

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Rare Shunga - Tomioka Eisen - Sinister Rape Scene - Tied Victim - c.1904.

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Antique Japanese color woodblock Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905). Shunga (Erotic print). Date: c.1904.
Size: 8 3/4" x 9 1/2" inches. Fine impression, color and near fine condition.
A very minute repair in the margin, very thin album backing, minor marks and flaws but otherwise in an excellent state !
Very nice addition of mica (metallic colored pigments) and bokashi shading to the face of the woman.

In a secluded area a sinister hairy man is penetrating a terrified female who has been tied down with a rope.

Click here for more > sinister shunga scenes or > shunga rape scenes !

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