Miscellaneous shunga prints
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Series: None Title: Illustrations
of All Secret Countries (Ban inkoku no zu) or Picture of an Honest Man (Maninkoku
no zu) Shagan: 20.31, page 354 (listed as Utagawa Kuniyoshi?) Description: Date: c. 1823-1826 Size: Double ôban, about 45 x 56 cm (17¾ x 22
in.) Publisher: No seal NOTE: This unsigned print is generally attributed to
Kuniyoshi. |
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Series: None Title: Raccoon Dog
and Foxes at Play (Tanuki to kitsune no asobi,
狸ト狐の遊び) Description: Raccoon dog
and foxes having a picnic on the former’s giant scrotum Date: c. 1842 Publisher: Suruga-ya Sakujirô |
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Series: Beauty of
Facial Expression (Hyôjyôbi, 表情美) Title: None Description: Woman in
ecstasy Date: Originally
published c. 1846, the image on the left was reprinted by Bijutsusha
in 1931, and the image on the right is more recent Size: 9.75 x 8.75 in
(left) and the print on the right is a chûban (about 10 by 7
inches or 25 by 18 centimeters) Publisher: Bijutsusha (left print) |
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Series: Aueyama Shagan: 8.23, page 155 Date: 1831 Size: Hanshi-bon (each page of book approximately 8¾ by 61/3
inches or 22 by 16 cm)| |
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Series: Makura kagami (Erotic mirror, 満具羅鏡) Shirakura: 90 Date: 1832 Size: |
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Series: Makura kagami (Erotic mirror, 満具羅鏡) Shirakura: 91 Date: 1832 Size: |
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Series: Kabuto kunki (Kabuto War Chronicles, 兜軍記) Shirakura: 161 Date: 1844 Size: Ôban (about 10 by 14 inches or 25 by 36 centimeters) |
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Series: Fûryû musha hakke (Eight Fashionable Warriors) Shagan: 16.52, page 285 (listed as “Utagawa Kuniyoshi?”) Date: 1840s Size: Koban (about 3½ by 4¾ inches or 9 by 12 centimeters) NOTE: This unsigned print has been attributed to
Kuniyoshi. It is based upon the novel Nansô Satomi Hakkenden
(The Biography of Nansô Satomi and the Eight Dog
Warriors) written by Takizawa Bakin
(1767-1848). By a rather complicated
set of circumstances, Fusehime, the daughter of
Lord Anzai of the Satomi Clan, gives birth to eight great warriors fathered
by a dog named Yatsufusa. |
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Series: Untitled
folding album (orihon) Date: c. 1850 NOTE: The last
page in this folding album of eight pictures is signed with Kuniyoshi’s
pseudonym “Hodoyoshi”. |
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Series: Untitled
folding album (orihon) Date: c. 1850 |
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Series: None Title: Picture of
War on a Mattress (Shitone gassen no zu, 褥合戰之圖) Shagan: 25.29, page 428 Description: Date: 1827 Size: Double ôban, about 45 x 56 cm (17¾ x 22
in.) |
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Series: Koi no minato-nyôgo no shimada
(The Harbor of Love on the Shagan: 6.3, page 119 Date: 1830 Size: Chûban (each page of
book approximately 7 by 4¾ inches or 17.5 by 12 centimeters) NOTE: Some sources attribute this ehon
to Kuniyasu. |
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Series: Koi no minato-nyôgo no shimada
(The Harbor of Love on the Date: 1830 Size: Chûban (each page of
book approximately 7 by 4¾ inches or 17.5 by 12 centimeters) |
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Series: None Description: Suikoden hero Tammeijirô
(or Tanmeijirô) Genshôgo
who is having intercourse with the queen of the Island of Women while holding
an opponent in an armlock Date: c. 1828 Size: Koban
(5 x 3.75 inches) |
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Series: Ishino (石の) followed by a
number one through twelve Date: c. 1830-1835 Size: 12 individual sheets each about 9 by 12 cm NOTE: This unsigned image is composes of twelve
individual sheets. It is from the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, which attributes it to Kuniyoshi. It shows half-naked women performing
acrobatic stunts on a ladder, which is a parody of the acrobatics performed
by firefighters at festivals. The inscriptions on the buckets on the second
lower print on the left refer to the Nakanocho Street in the Yoshiwara (the
prostitution district of Edo). Below it is the large water barrel that stood
at the gate of Yoshiwara; the gate is on the right. Possibly the twelve
pictures form a calendar with references to the short and long months. Below is a c. 1880 photograph of fireman
performing.
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Series: Tôsei henge zukushi (Contemporary
Transformations) Description: A battle of ghosts whose heads
have been transformed into genitalia Date: c. 1844 Size: Kôban (3.5 by 5 inches or 9 by 13
centimeters) |
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Series: Tôsei henge zukushi (Contemporary
Transformations) Description: Date: c. 1844 Size: Kôban (3.5 by 5 inches or 9 by 13
centimeters) |
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Series: Tôsei henge zukushi (Contemporary
Transformations) Description: Date: c. 1844 Size: Kôban (3.5 by 5 inches or 9 by 13
centimeters) |
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Series: Genji shinobugusa (Genji Yearnings, 源氏忍草) Description: Date: Size: |
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Series: Genji shinobugusa (Genji Yearnings, 源氏忍草) Description: Date: Size: |
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Series: Hatsugasumi kuruwa no kotobuki (Felicitious
First Stirrings of the Yoshiwara New Year, 初霞廓乃寿) Description: Six women grooming themselves
and grooming each other Date: Size: |
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Series: Description: Date: c. 1840 Size: 26 x 34 cm (double book sheet) |
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Series: Description: Lovers in a lustful embrace Date: c. 1840 Size: 26 x 34 cm (double book sheet) |
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Series: Description: Young courtesan lying down, her
lover on his Date: c. 1840 Size: 26 x 34 cm (double book sheet) |
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Series: Description: Almost undressed lovers in the
highest lust. Numerous crumpled tissues are evidence of long-lasting
lovemaking Date: c. 1840 Size: 26 x 34 cm (double book sheet) |
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Series: Description: A man and young woman in
passionate embrace, as a temari ball rolls away Date: c. 1840 Size: 26 x 34 cm (double book sheet) |
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“Shirakura” refers to page numbers in Japanese
Shunga of Kuniyoshi by Yoshihiko Shirakura,
2012, Heibonsha Ltd., “Shagan” refers
to listing in Japanese Erotic Art by Ofer Shagan, 2013, Thames &
Hudson, CLICK
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