CONTEST OF BEAUTIES: DRIED GIANT ELEPHANT EAR STEM FROM HIGO PROVINCE (Keisai Eisen)

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

Artist: Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉 (1790-1848)
From the book: Picture Book, Contest of Beauties 艶本美女競, vol. 1 上
Print subject: higozuiki 肥後ずいき (dried giant elephant ear stem from Higo province, used as a sex aid)

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

Year: ca. 1822
Condition: reasonable, paper thinning, holes, cracks, tears and stains, trimmed margins
Dimensions: 26,5 x 18,5 cm

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