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[Ehon tsuhi no hinagata (Models of loving couples)] [pictures]
- Author
- Hokusai, 1760-1849.
- Title
- [Ehon tsuhi no hinagata (Models of loving couples)] [pictures] / [Katsushika Hokusai]
- Format
- Image
- Edition
- [3rd version]
- Published
- [ca. 1811]
- Description
- 1 portfolio : [9] pl. of col. ill. ; 25 x 38 cm.
- Notes
- Original prints. Title supplied by cataloger. Originally published with 12 prints. KI copy has 9. Place of origin: [Japan]
- Summary
- Woodblock prints (ōban) of couples in coital positions. KI prints "C" and "D" identical to pl. 6.84 and 6.85 in T. & M.A. Evans, Shunga: the art of love in Japan (London 1975), from 3rd version of book. For date, general discussion and attribution to Hokusai as opposed to daughter O-Ei or colleague Eisen, see also R. Lane in P. Rawson, ed., Erotic art of the East (New York 1968) p. 350ff.; R. Lane in Ukiyo-e (special edition 1977) 165ff.; R. Lane in Ukiyo-e 76 (1977) 8-19; Y. Hayashi in Ukiyo-e 84 (1981) 62-79.
- Subject headings
- Hokusai,--1760-1849.
- Kinsey subjects
- Coital techniques--Japan--19th century.
- Subject headings
- Japan.