JAPANESE ART > ABUNA-E WOODBLOCK PRINTS > MAN SHAVING THE NAPE OF A BEAUTY

Lot 01084
N.1 abuna-e woodblock print

Utagawa Kunisada

MAN SHAVING THE NAPE OF A BEAUTY

Period: 1840s
Condition: very good
Size: 14 x 11,5 cm

Price: EUR 184,00

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Interesting double-page woodblock printed illustration of the abuna-e (あぶな絵) type attributed to the famous artist Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) and depicting an unusual subject: a male lover who is shaving the nape of the neck of a beauty who, after a bath, is sitting in front of a mirror.

The work is taken from vol. 1 (上) of an erotic book produced in the 1840s by the publisher Kinseido (金勢堂), entitled "Spring Poems for Pine, Bamboo and Plum" (春詠松竹梅) and signed by the illustrator Kairo Doketsu (開樓童傑), probably a pseudonym of Kunisada, and by the writer Kaikosha Iroteru (開好舎色照), a possible pseudonym of Utagawa Yoshiteru (歌川芳輝).

The print on Japanese washi paper (和紙), despite the right signs of aging, is in overall very good condition.

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