SELECTION OF LAUGHING PICTURES: FOUR TYPES OF WOMEN’S VAGINA (Koikawa Shozan)

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

Artist: Koikawa Shozan 恋川笑山 (1821-1907)
From the book: Selection of Laughing Pictures for Learning the Virtues and Joys of Intimacy 貞喜睦笑画抄
Print subject: four types of women’s vagina

Inscriptions: (from top right, counterclockwise) Wheat 麥, Soybean 大豆, Adzuki bean 小豆, Millet 粟

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: sumizuri-e 墨摺絵 monochromatic woodblock printing

Period: 1850s
Condition: fair, slight stains
Dimensions: 10,5 x 9,5 cm

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