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[Yakumo no chirigi (Poetic intercourse)] [pictures]
- Author
- Eisen, Tomioka.
- Title
- [Yakumo no chirigi (Poetic intercourse)] [pictures] / [Tomioko Eisen and Hamada Josen]
- Format
- Image
- Published
- [1899]
- Description
- 1 album : [12] pl. of col. ill. ; 28 cm.
- Other contributors
- Josen, Hamada.
- Notes
- Original prints. Title supplied by cataloger. Place of origin: [Japan] Mounted in silk-covered accordion album.
- Summary
- Ōban. 12 scenes of heterosexual foreplay and intercourse. One page of text (in Japanese). An example of forbidden shunga works of Meiji period. Strong European influence in style--interest in perspective, proportion and volume. For discussion of album and illustration of prints 4 and 12, see T. & M.A. Evans, Shunga, the art of love in Japan (New York 1975) p. 268 and pl. 6.113-6.114. Prints in good condition. Glued into album.
- Other subjects
- Shunga.