Picture Scroll Entitled On Label On Outside Of Front Silk Brocade Endpaper Shunsho No Mutsu Hana

by Erotic Scroll

$6,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Scroll 290 x 4780 mm. , with gold paper inner endpaper at front, wooden core roller. Japan : n.d., but late Edo or early Meiji. A fine example of an erotic scroll, anonymously painted as usual but with great skill. The scroll contains 12 erotic scenes painted on silk the well-known “set of 12“ format of men and women engaged in various sexual activities. As in many shunga hand scrolls, the paintings feature a sequence of lovemaking positions in

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