LOVEMATES AND WHISPERED SHORT SONGS: NIHONBASHI, KATSURA RIVER (Futagawa Josui)

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

Artist: Futagawa Josui 婦多川情水, poss. pseudonym of Utagawa Yoshikazu 歌川芳員 (active 1848-70)
From the book: Lovemates and Whispered Short Songs 仇戀端唄の忍音
Print title: Nihonbashi 日本橋

Note: paired, in the white inset, with the song Katsura River かつら川

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

Period: 1850s
Condition: fair, small paper thinning
Dimensions: 11 x 17,5 cm

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