Charming Sleeve Shunga Book Set by Kunisada
17 november 2017 
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Charming Sleeve Shunga Book Set by Kunisada

These attractive miniature shunga book sets were published for those customers who wanted to enjoy them in private (“secretly”) and could carry them in the sleeve of their kimono’s.

Poem of Spring, Pine and Bamboo

This set is by the extraordinary ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) entitled ‘Shun-ei shochikubai (Poem of Spring, Pine and Bamboo)‘ and was published c.1840s. It includes eighteen finely-printed double page color illustrations with excellent use of metallic pigments and embossing techniques. Kunisada signed it under his pen name Kairo Doketsu.

Squatting Couple

The shunga book set features 18 double page color designs and 3 single page color designs. The majority of the scenes take place inside the house including fully naked couples or for example having intercourse in front of a big folding screen portaying Mount Fuji (Fig.4. and 6). But there’s also a striking image with a squatting couple exposing their private parts, outside in the garden near a fence (Fig.3.). It also includes an unusual image of a male lover who is shaving the neck of his spouse while she is sitting in front of a mirror (Fig.7.).

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Fig.1. Front and backcover  of one the Sleeve Shunga books (c.1840s)

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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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