COMING OF AGE DIARIES: KITARI KINOSUKE AND THE MAIDSERVANT OKIMI (Utagawa Kunisada)

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

Artist: anon. after Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (1786-1865)
From the book: Coming of Age Diaries 水揚日記帳, vol. 4 第四番
Print title: Kitari Kinosuke and the Maidservant Okimi 北里喜之助 了鬟お喜美

Note: the aforementioned book is partially inspired on the erotic designs from the Lustful Notebooks about the Coming of Age Ceremony and Graduation to Geishahood 春情妓談水揚帳 illustrated by Kunisada in 1836

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

Period: 19th century
Condition: fair
Dimensions: 22 x 17,5

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