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Japanese scroll
- Title
- Japanese scroll.
- Format
- Image
- Published
- 19th century.
- Description
- 1 scroll handpainted on paper and mounted on silk brocade; 3 1/8" w x 3" h x 15 1/4" l. Boxed.
- Notes
- ISR 520. A red seal appears on the reverse at the beginning of the scroll, and at the end on the front side.
- Summary
- 6 scenes of heterosexual sex behavior. Text at the end reads: "This was received by the Duke of Date, a so-called painting by Matabe Ewasa, founder of a school of painting. One of two scrolls." The characters on the lid read: "A picture of the secret technique between men and women. The school of old Tosa."
- Kinsey subjects
- Art--Japan--19th century. Sex behavior--Japan--19th century. Scrolls.