A SHIP COMING IN WITH THE COLORS OF SPRING: SEXUAL ENCOUNTER OF THE HANDSOME HARUJIRO WITH HIS COUSIN (Utagawa Kunimori II)

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

Artist: Utagawa Kunimori II 二代目歌川国盛 (active ca. 1840-60)
From the book: Diary of a Ship Coming in with the Colors of Spring 春色入船日記, vol. 2 巻之中
Print subject: sexual encounter of the handsome Hanagasaya Harujiro 花笠屋春次郎 with his cousin, the palace maid Misago 雎鳩

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

Period: 1848-54
Condition: overall good, slight wrinkles
Dimensions: 27 x 22,5 cm

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