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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)- Lovers in Front of a Screen. From the album Ehon komachi-biki (PictureBook: Pulling Komachi).
1802. Oban. 26.3 x 39.1. Asano and Clark no. 492. Very good impression. Fine colour. Very good condition.
$5,000
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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)- Ehon warai jogo (Picture Book: The Laughing Drinker)
Circa 1803. Illustrated book. 3 volumes complete. 21.7 x 15.4cm (covers). Asano & Clark 494, Clark, Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art nos. 4 and 52. Fine, early impressions with superb, unfaded colour. Original covers and title-slips show wear, but internal contents are fine. This erotic masterpiece is thought to be Utamaro's final shumpon. Each volume opens with a half-length portrait of a beauty and closes with a detail of the genitalia. This book is extensively discussed in Asano & Clark and Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art (op. cit. pages 52 and 207).
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Utagawa Kunimori (1818-1843)- Shunshoku tama zoroi Circa 1850.
3 volumes complete. 24.5 x 16.7 cm (covers). Fine impressions and colour. Very good condition.
$8,500
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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)- Ehon warai jogo (Picture Book: The Laughing Drinker)
Circa 1803. Illustrated book. 3 volumes complete. 21.7 x 15.4cm (covers). Asano & Clark 494, Clark, Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art nos. 4 and 52. Fine, early impressions with superb, unfaded colour. Original covers and title-slips show wear, but internal contents are fine. This erotic masterpiece is thought to be Utamaro's final shumpon. Each volume opens with a half-length portrait of a beauty and closes with a detail of the genitalia. This book is extensively discussed in Asano & Clark and Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art (op. cit. pages 52 and 207).
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Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)- Lovers in Front of a Fishbowl. From the series Wakoku kagami-e (Mirror Picture of Japan).
Late 1760s. Chuban. 20.6 x 28.2cm. Fine impression with brilliant, fresh, unfaded colour. Faint centrefold. Fine condition.
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Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)- A Middle-aged Woman Making Love Beneath a Mosquito Net. Toshima. From the series Imayo juni kagami (Twelve Mirrors of the Modern World).
Mid-1780s. Chuban. 19 x 25.9cm. Fine impression, colour and condition.
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Katsukawa Shuncho (Active late 1770s-late 1790s)- Lovers
Late 1780’s. Aiban. Fine impression and colour. Centrefold. Very good condition.
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Katsukawa Shuncho (Active late 1770s-late 1790s)- Lovers
Late 1780s. Aiban. 22.4 x 32.3cm. Fine impression and colour. Centrefold. Very good condition.
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Keisai Eisen (1790-1848)- Entangled Lovers
1830s. Oban. 38.3 x 25.9cm. Fine impression with metallic printing. Fine colour. Faint centrefold. Very good condition.
$2,800
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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)- Lovers
Late 1790s. Oban. 25 x 37.7cm. Fine impression, colour and condition. Faint centrefold.
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Katsukawa Shuncho (Active late 1770s-late 1790s)- Lovers.
Late 1780s. From the series Keichu majura nishiki (Multi-coloured Pillows in Bed). Ca. Chuban. 19.4 x 26.3 cm). Fine, early impression with exquisite printing. Fine colour. Fine condition with small flaws. A fine example of benigirai printing.
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School of Kikugawa Eizan (1787-1867)- Lovers Embracing Underneath a Mosquito Net.
Ca. 1810. Koban. 12.5 x 18.9 cm. Fine impression, colour and condition.
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Keisai Eisen (1790-1848)- Lovers
Circa 1820s. Fine impression with metallic printing. Fine colour. Faint centrefold. Very good condition.
$1,900
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Keisai Eisen (1790-1848)- Lovers
Circa 1820s. Fine impression with metallic printing. Fine colour. Faint centrefold. Very good condition.
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Katsukawa Shuncho (Active late 1770s-late 1790s)- Lovers
Late 1780’s. Oban. Fine impression. Very good colour and condition. Faint centrefold.
$$2,500
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Katsukawa Shuncho (Active late 1770s-late 1790s)- Lovers
Late 1780’s. Oban. Fine impression. Very good colour and condition. Faint centrefold.
$$2,500
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Katsukawa Shuncho (Active late 1770s-late 1790s)- Lovers
Late 1780s. Oban. Fine impression. Very good colour and condition. Faint centrefold.
$2,500
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Katsukawa Shuncho (Active late 1770s-late 1790s)- Lovers
Late 1780s. Oban. 25 x 37.7cm. Fine impression. Very good colour. Extremely faint centrefold. Fine condition.
$2,500
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)- A Couple Making Love.
Ca. 1814. From the series, Tsui No Hinagata (“Patterns of Loving Couples”). Oban. 25.8 x 38.6 cm. Hillier, The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration, pl. 146. Fine impression of the first edition. Fine colour with metallic pigments. Very good condition.
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Isoda Koryusai (active ca. 1764-1788)- A Couple Making Love. From the series Shikido torikumi juni awase (Twelve Encounters on the Road of Sensuality)
Early 1770s. Koban. Fine impression. Brilliant, unfaded colour. Very good condition.
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Isoda Koryusai (active ca. 1764-1788)- A Night Scene of a Woman Disturbed by Two Lovers
Early 1770s. Chuban. 19.4 x 26.1cm. Evans, Shunga, 3-G. Fine impresion, colour and condition.
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Isoda Koryusai (active ca. 1764-1788)- A Couple Making Love Beside a Scholar's Table
Early 1770s. CHuban. 19.5 x 26.5cm. Fine impression and colour. Pristine condition.
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Katsukawa Shuncho (Active late 1770s-late 1790s)- Lovers Beside a Screen
Late 1780s. Chuban. 19.3 x 25.7cm. Fine impression. Very fine, unfaded colour. Fine condition.
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Attributed to Rekisentei Eiri (Active c.1790-1800)- A Couple Making Love Beside a Screen
Late 1790s. Oban. 38.6 x 25.8cm. Fine impression on thick, deluxe paper. Fine colour. Slight printer's crease. Fine condition.
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Isoda Koryusai (active ca. 1764-1788)- Lovers
Circa 1770. Chuban. Fine impression and colour with attractive oxidation. Very good condition.
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