PERMISSIVE TONES: HEART FILLED WITH LONGING (Kitao Shigemasa)
$425.00
Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: shunga 春画 erotic art
Artist: Kitao Shigemasa 北尾重政 (1739-1820)
From the book: Picture Book, Permissive Tones 艶本免の音色, vol. 3 下
Top inscription: Since we can meet only secretly, my heart is filled with longing. Chika no Shiogama is a place near only in name, the distance which separates us consumes my soul and body. 人め忍ぶ乃中なれはおもひはむねに陸奥の千賀乃塩がま名のみにてへだてゝ身をぞこかるゝ (from the song cycle Song of the Distant Sky 雲井の曲, translation by Tsuge Gen’ichi 柘植元一)
Publisher: Daikodo 大好堂
Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: sumizuri-e 墨摺絵 monochromatic woodblock printing
Year: ca. 1779
Condition: reasonable, significant paper thinnings, trimmed margins
Dimensions: 26,5 x 18 cm
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