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Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century Edo period (1615-1868) and Meiji era (1868-1912),
Makimono (horizontal handscroll) depicting shunga (erotic pictures), second half of the 19th century
ink, colours, and gold on paper, depicting a series of sexual One Shunga album and one illustrated book: the first a fold-out album
encounters between a court noble and a court lady, interspersed with of 10 paintings, ink, colour and gold on silk, depicting 10 love-making
passages of cursive narrative calligraphy, the iconography imitating a scenes, including a courtesan and her client, travellers beneath a
typical scroll of palace life, the noble at first fully clothed and carrying a flowering cherry tree and a middle-class young lady and her lover
fan, bow, and quiver of arrows approaches the lady who is seated half on an engawa (veranda), unsigned, mounted within pale-blue fabric,
hidden behind a sudare (rolling blind), the couple then gradually divest with brocade covers; each painting approx. 23cm x 29.5cm (9in x 11
themselves of their clothes as the amorous encounters develop, each 5/8in); the second a koban-size illustrated book, consisting of two
set on an engawa (veranda) and backed first by autumn plants and pages of preface, 13 double-page colour illustrations and one page
then by morning glories; the wrapper of gold paper backed with silk postscript written by Dakudakuan Shujin, the 13 illustrations depicting
brocade; with an inscribed wood storage box. couples from different social classes making love, 11 prints titled kumo
32cm x 850cm (12 5/8in x 334¾in). (2). ma no tsuki (The Moon Seen between Clouds), 10 pages with added
ink inscription in English on the bottom margins, some sheets with
£3,000 - 4,000 urushi and karazuri details, the postscript page with the pseudonym
JPY410,000 - 550,000 of the artist, possibly reading Keikyo hitsu, with brocade covers;
US$3,700 - 5,000 each print approx. 19cm x 24cm (7½in x 9½in). (2).

£800 - 1,000
JPY110,000 - 140,000
US$990 - 1,200

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