Lot Essay
This design refers to the seventh month, since poemslips, associated with the Tanabata festival held in the seventh month are visble through the window on the left.
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CIRCA 1788
Details
Katsukawa Shuncho (act. c. 1780-1800)
Circa 1788
A couple embracing, half hidden under mosquito netting, from the series Koshoku zue juniko (Erotic Prints for the Twelve Months), very good impression, colour and condition, a slight centerfold, printed on heavy paper
Circa 1788
A couple embracing, half hidden under mosquito netting, from the series Koshoku zue juniko (Erotic Prints for the Twelve Months), very good impression, colour and condition, a slight centerfold, printed on heavy paper
Literature
Illustrated in Uhlenbeck and Winkel, Leiden, 2005, Japanese Erotic Fantasies. Sexual Imagery of the Edo period, pl. 36c (this impression) and in Kobayashi and Asano Tokyo, 1995 Ukiyo-e soroimono (Pillow Pictures: Ukiyo-e Series), vol. 2, p. 68
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