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157
UTAMARO SCHOOL
Edo period (1615-1868),
late 18th/early 19th cenury
An album mounted with twelve oban shunga
prints depicting different couples making love
indoors, including a young couple beside a
hibachi (brazier), an older woman and a young
man beside a screen, a young princess and
her young attendant beside an elbow rest,
a geisha and her client beside a discarded
shamisen and plectrum, and a courtesan with
her client on a futon; unsigned. Each sheet
approx. 26.3cm x 38.2cm (10 1/8in x 15in).

£1,500 - 2,000
JPY210,000 - 280,000
US$1,900 - 2,500

158
KATSUKAWA SHUNCHO
(ACTIVE CIRCA 1781-1800),
UTAMARO SCHOOL, AND OTHERS
Edo period (1615-1868),
late 18th century to late 19th century
Comprising eight oban, two aiban, one
chuban shunga yoko-e prints and three
hanshi-bon size shunga book plates, all
depicting a couple making love; four prints
by or attributed to Shuncho, comprising one
oban from the series Koshoku zue juniko
(Erotic Prints for the Twelve Months), framed
and glazed, and one chuban from the series
Koshoku junitai (Erotic Twelve Couples) and
further two oban; two aiban probably by the
Katsukawa school; five oban by the Utamaro
school; two book plates from the volume two
of Ehon kinoe no komatsu (Pine Seedlings on
the First Rat Day) by Hokusai; one book plate
by the Utagawa school; all contained inside
plastic sleeves mounted on to card, except for
one. The smallest 21.5cm x 26.2cm (8½in x
10 3/8in), the largest 25cm x 38cm
(9 7/8in x 15in). (14).

£1,000 - 1,500
JPY140,000 - 210,000
US$1,200 - 1,900

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