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LATE 1820S
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Yanagawa Shigenobu (1787-1833)
Late 1820s
A beautiful mosquito net design showing a man and a woman engaged in an erotic encounter while a second women sleeps with her legs parted, from the twelve sheet series Yanagi no arashi (Willow Storm), late 1820s, very good impression, colour and condition
Late 1820s
A beautiful mosquito net design showing a man and a woman engaged in an erotic encounter while a second women sleeps with her legs parted, from the twelve sheet series Yanagi no arashi (Willow Storm), late 1820s, very good impression, colour and condition
Literature
Illustrated in Lane and Hayashi, Teihon ukiyo-e shunga meihin shusei. The complete Ukiyo-e Shunga, Tokyo, 1995-2000, vol. 4, p. 10; and in Uhlenbeck and Winkel, Leiden, 2005, Japanese Erotic Fantasies. Sexual Imagery of the Edo period, pl. 65a (this impression).
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