Sensual Kuniyoshi Print With Secret Encounter In a Restaurant
07 maart 2019 
2 min. read

Sensual Kuniyoshi Print With Secret Encounter In a Restaurant

The famous Utagawa school artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) was a fruitful designer of erotica. His work was made to the most painstaking standards of color-printing, and his focus was more on the lives of ordinary townspeople.

A Thousand Chores

A nice example of this is the four page fold-out design below that takes place in a Fukugawa restaurant near the harbour. The vast room is crowded with geishas going about a thousand chores among huge bags of laundry, carrying their instrument cases and trays laden with platters of food, some stepping towards the outside area, where a party can just be seen taking place.

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Assignation in the bedding cupboard of a Fukugawa restaurant‘ (c.1835) from the series ‘Hana goyomi (Flower Calendar)‘ by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Tittle-Tattle

On the right, in a corner that is anything but screened off, a couple are making love lying on some sacks, while three geisha in the foreground exchange tittle-tattle about it. A young mysterious client wearing a hood (zukin) to conceal his identity, is looking for a female companion.

Mastery

It is Kuniyoshi’s mastery that leads our eyes from the crowded area on the left, slowly to the panel on the far right to the more quiet secret corner with the intimate couple.

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kuniyoshi print

Click HERE for more tantalizing designs of Kuniyoshi Calendar of Flower– series or HERE for another design taking place in a crowded area (a kabuki theatre)…!!!

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Marijn is the founder of shungagallery.com. With more than 20 years of experience within the sensual and erotic art of shunga he is an authority in the genre. During this time he served many customers with complementing their art collection.
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on 08 Mar 2019

Thanks a lot for your feedback Billy, really appreciated! Will let you know if I come across another impression of that piece!

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