Japanese Shunga Erotic Art
This is a Japanese erotic shunga handpainted piece, likely a reproduction, by Toyokuni III and Hiroshige Utagawa. It depicts a woman with a man. It is painted on silk, and afterwards placed inside a thick paper frame with a protective plastic sheet.
Shunga is Japanese erotic art made traditionally by ukiyoe woodblock printing. Though these types of images and books are associated with general art as well as personal entertainment, the images in shunga were also used as an educational tool for youth and young married couples.
Ukiyoe is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties, kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers, scenes from history and folk tales, travel scenes and landscapes, flora and fauna, and erotica.
- Blue, gray, black, red, pink
- Silk, paper, plastic
- C1930 (paper frame and plastic cover are more recent)
- Item weight: 245 grams
- Packed weight: 1000 grams
- Picture only approx. 39 cm long x 27.2 cm wide
- Approx. 50.8 cm long x 40.6 cm wide x 0.3 cm thick
- Good condition considering age. Some stains on silk. Frayed silk and damage on borders. Damage on label on paper frame. Wear and tear due to age. Please see the photos.
- This piece was purchased at the famous Osu Antique Market in Nagoya, Japan
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