Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865) ascribed to
Lovers in a room beside a table with served meals. The woman hugs the man, who holds a shamisen.
Title: Tsumebiki (to strike the strings)
From the series: Shamisen jûni chôshi (12 sounds of a Shamisen)
Date: about 1835
Size: Obon double-page, 21 x 31,5 cm (print size)
Very good impression with nice and fresh colours, with metal pigments (partly oxidized). Margins at lower corners just a little bit worn, otherwise nice and clean condition.
Lit.: Fagioli, Shunga. Ars amandi in Japan, 1998, pp 142, Fig. 145-156. Klefisch, catalogue No 84, No 32 (there ascribed to Yanagawa Shigenobu).
sold