JAPANESE ART > UKIYO-E WOODBLOCK PRINTS > BEAUTY AND DOG OF LUST

Lot 01109
N.1 ukiyo-e woodblock print

Keisai Eisen

BEAUTY AND DOG OF LUST

Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: ukiyo-e 浮世絵 pictures of the floating world

Artist: Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉 (1790-1848), signed Keisai Eisen ga 渓斎英泉画
Print title: Snow 雪
Print subject: beauty and dog of lust in the snow (a reference to the Japanese Buddhist proverb: Though driven away, the dog of lust cannot be kept from coming back again 煩悩の犬は追えども去らず)

Publisher: Sanoya Kihei 佐野屋喜兵衛 (Kikakudo 喜鶴堂)
Censor's seal: kiwame 極

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing

Year: ca. 1825
Condition: reasonable, many holes, wrinkles, restorations, backing
Dimensions: 22 x 33 cm

Price: EUR 515,00

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