KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1753-1806)

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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)
From the series Negai no itoguchi [The Prelude to Desire], published in 1799, a man approaching his lover, in the text above she asks him to stop, she is getting impatient, very good impression, colour and condition, slight centrefold
Oban yoko-e

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Lot Essay

For a similar example see Asano Shugo and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro (London, 1995), text vol. 280-81; and Lane and Hayashi, Teihon ukiyo-e shunga meihin shusei [The complete Ukiyo-e Shunga], (Tokyo, 1995-2000), vol. 15, p. 36-37

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