Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)

Ehon Komachibiki (Picture book: Embracing Komachi or Pulling Komachi)

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Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)
Ehon Komachibiki (Picture book: Embracing Komachi or Pulling Komachi)
Complete set of thirteen erotic scenes, including a kuchi-e (frontispiece) depicting a young girl nestling up to a young man resting his arm on a game board--very good impressions, generally good color, some partially faded or faded, some with minor worm holes restored, some with minor stains, slight soilling and/or rubbing, vertical center fold, some restorations
oban yoko-e: 24.9 x 38.6cm. each approx. (13)

Lot Essay

For other sets see Hayashi Yoshikazu and Richard Lane, Utamaro, Ehon Komachibiki, vol. 2 of Teihon ukiyo-e shunga meihin shusei (The complete ukiyo-e shunga) (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1996), pl. jo and pls. 1-12; and Asano Shugo and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro (Tokyo and London: Asahi Shimbunsha and British Museum Press, 1995), pl. 492.

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