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Shunkyuzu (Images du palais du printemps)

1880, 12x18cm, autre.

Album of five Japanese erotic paintings, anonymous.
Acordon binding, can unfold completely and expose the five paintings. Very thick cardboard imitating the rigidity of the wood, the paintings on paper were laminated on the cardboard. Coated on the upper and lower plate of a fuchsia leather added to the twentieth replacing the original fabric. Old yellow label with handwritten title in Indian ink. Small speckles scattered on the paintings.
the five paintings put five couples into action in tight shots, most of them without furniture or other decor, like Koyushi for example. The palette uses green, yellow, red and blue in pastel shades. The whole is painted in line, in a rather mannerist and naive way, limbs languid in delicate expressions. The whole obeys the canons of the representation of shunga (Japanese erotic prints) with happy and fulfilled characters, with particularly exposed sexes, the male member still turgid and fat. Kimonos offer contrasting colors and patterns (geometric, flowers or leaves). The date of 1860 is only a proposal, the collection may be later, around 1880. However, several criteria make us look for an execution at the end of the Edo era. This type of collection was anonymous most of the time because of censorship. At the beginning of the Meiji era, the attraction for erotic photography supplanted the shunga. Some painters specialized in the production of shunga, and it is not uncommon to meet the same scenes in various collections.

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