Ten Tanzaku Tall Narrow Cards For Printing Poetry Each Consisting Of Two Panels Of Thick Paper

by Erotic Tanzaku Cards

$2,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Ten cards 181 x 50 mm. , all preserved in the orig. folded color-printed wrapper, entitled on upper panel Furyu e tanzaku Elegantly Illustrated Tanzaku Cards . Japan: Meiji Era . Ten erotic cards, issued together, each in the tanzaku ban format, and accompanied by their original color-printed wrapper. Tanzaku cards were popular in the Meiji era 1868-1912 ; see Rosina Buckland’s “Erotic Art of the Meiji Era 1868-1912 ” in Timothy Clark et al.,

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