MARIONNETTES PASSIONNÉES (SHUNJO YUBI NINGYO)

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KEISAI EISEN (1790-1848)
MARIONNETTES PASSIONNÉES (SHUNJO YUBI NINGYO)
3 volumes illustrés (complet).
Comprenant:
Volume 1: 1 page figurant le titre, 8 double-pages d'illustrations, 7 double-pages et 2 pages de texte.
Volume 2: 1 page d'illustration (couverture intérieure), 5 double-pages d'illustrations, 7 double-pages de texte, 1 page de texte.
Volume 3: 1 page d'illustration (couverture intérieure), 5 double-pages d'illustrations, 7 double-pages de texte, 1 page de texte.
Dimensions de chaque volume: 22 x 15,5 cm. (8 5/8 x 6 1/8 in.)

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Further details

KEISAI EISEN (1790-1848)
PASSIONATE FINGER PUPPETS (SHUNJO YUBI NINGYO)
WOODBLOCK-PRINTED ILLUSTRATED BOOK, 3 VOLUMES (COMPLETE)

Sale room notice

Veuillez noter que le volume I comporte bien 8 doubles pages d’illustrations et non 7 comme indiqué par erreur dans le catalogue.

Please note that volume I does have 8 double-page illustrations and not 7 as stated in the cataloguing.

Lot Essay

For another example of the same book previously in The Gerhard Pulverer Collection, purchased by the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, accession number FSC-GR-780.7.1-3, go to:
https://www.freersackler.si.edu/object/FSC-GR-780.7.1-3/

For further reading and some translation of the text accompanying the illustrations, see Tim Clark et. al., Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art, (British Museum, 2013), p. 38-9.

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