Scroll on paper, with 12 black & white brush images, each measuring 272 x 375 mm

by Underdrawings? Erotica Scroll

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Scroll 320 x 5250 mm. , silk-brocade front outer endpaper, with floral drawing in color at beginning, wooden core roller. Japan : after 1823. The 12 finely rendered erotic drawings present on this scroll, in the famous “set of 12” format, have been attributed on the manuscript label of the scroll’s box to Chōkyōsai Eiri active 1790s-1801 , a little known pupil of Hosoda Eishi 1756-1829 , who for some years was an equal rival to Utamaro.

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