PULLING KOMACHI: MISTRESS AND HEAD CLERK (Kitagawa Utamaro)

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

Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (ca. 1753-1806)
From the series: Picture Book, Pulling Komachi 絵本小町引
Print subject: in the bedroom of a merchant’s house, while the master is away, the head clerk, who has been having a secret affair with the mistress for some time, flirts with her while she is combing her hair in front of a mirror

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

Year: 1802
Condition: reasonable
Dimensions: 38 x 24,5 cm

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