SLEEP-DISHEVELED HAIR: COUPLE ON A RAILED TIMBER PLATFORM (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 book: Picture Book, Sleep-disheveled Hair 絵本寝乱髪, vol. 1 上
Print subject: couple on a railed timber platform

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

Year: 1799
Condition: reasonable, some stains and paper thinning, wormholes, damage in the lower right corner
Dimensions: 26,5 x 21 cm

SOLD