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.