A HARLOT’S ACCOUNT OF VERNAL LOVE: MAKING LOVE BACKSTAGE (Utagawa Kunisada)

Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: shunga 春画 erotic art

Artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (1786-1865)
From the book: A Harlot’s Account of Vernal Love, A Journal of Defloration 春情妓談水揚帳, vol. 2 中の巻
Print subject: Otatsu おたつ and Kineya Tsukutaro 杵屋突太郎 and the young Oharu お春 and Mizukichi 水吉 making love backstage

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

Year: 1836
Condition: reasonable, wormholes, tear in the lower left corner, trimmed margins
Dimensions: 26,5 x 19 cm

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