Printed orihon accordion shunga, consisting of 28 woodblock color-printed panels, two of which have flaps to reveal a four-panel sex scene

by Tea Ceremony Mitate Erotica, 見立て

$4,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

A total of 17 panels with color-printed woodcuts one double-page & one four panels wide . Oblong 12mo 70 x 84 mm. , orig. wooden boards, orig. purple silk title label but no title! on upper cover. Japan : late 19th century. A very rare kind of shunga, this is an example of a mitate, an “appropriation of a classical source…then used to portray the modern, urban demi-monde.”–C. Andrew Gerstle, “Shunga and Parody” in Timothy

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