Illustrated scroll on paper, entitled “Shiki no susami” trans.: “Four Seasons of Pleasure Seeking”

by Journey To The Pleasure Quarter

$16,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Many finely drawn illustrations in brush, ink, & colors. Scroll 285 x 9310 mm. , 23 joined sheets some inoffensive worming, carefully repaired . Japan: copied before 1857. A finely illustrated scroll, created in the witty and refined realistic style of Yamato-e and Ukiyo-e brush work, depicting the route taken — a distance of about 4 km. — by pleasure-seekers from Ryogoku Bridge to Shin Yoshiwara, the center of prostitution in the city of Edo. By

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