Buddhist Priests Erotic Scroll

$4,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Scroll on paper 330 x 4680 mm. , with seven scenes in brush & ink and color washes, gold-flecked endpapers, gold-flecked borders throughout, silk brocade on outside of endpapers, silver-flecked paper on verso of scroll, wooden core roller. Japan: late Edo . A remarkable erotic scroll depicting the visit of a group of traveling Buddhist priests to a roadside inn, where they have much and varied sex with each other and the inn’s female employees, who

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