Picture scroll on paper, with ten erotic paintings, with ample use of metallic pigments & paint made from ground-up seashells

by Erotic Scroll

$5,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Scroll 300 x 4150 mm. , with pale green silk borders & endpapers, wooden core roller. Japan : n.d. but probably early Edo. This is a fine example of an erotic scroll, anonymously painted as usual but with great skill. The scroll contains ten scenes of men sometimes samurai and women engaged in various sexual activities. Two of the scenes are threesomes, one of which shows a young samurai copulating with two older women. The hairstyles of both the

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