Illustrated Scroll On Paper Entitled On Manuscript Paper Label On Outside Tansai Toba E Giga Hohi

by Flatulence Humor In Japan

$3,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Ten vividly rendered scenes. Scroll 265 x 6150 mm. , gold-flecked inner front endpaper, outside covered with a fine silk floral-patterned brocade fabric. Japan : mid-Edo. Flatulence humor has a long history in Japan: he-gassen 屁合戦 “fart competitions” or hōhi-gassen 放屁合戦 “fart fights” have been depicted in the country’s art since the Heian era 794-1185 . Our scroll contains ten explicit

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