Shunshoku neya no shiori 春色閨の栞 A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring

by Kunisada I. 歌川国貞 Utagawa, also known as Utagawa

$5,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Text by Keisei Eisen 渓斎英泉 . Three title-pages, three pages of Preface, and 13 double-page & three full-page color-printed woodblock illus. 16.5; 12; 15.5 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, cont. decorated wrappers a bit soiled , title-slips lacking, new stitching. Japan : ca. 1850. First edition of this extremely uncommon shunga, illustrated by the great Kunisada I 1786-1865 . The first illustration in the second volume depicts a small

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