SLEEP-DISHEVELED HAIR: INTERCOURSE ON THE STAIRS (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: intercourse on the stairs

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

Year: 1799
Condition: reasonable, stains, wormholes, restorations in the lower corners
Dimensions: 26 x 21 cm

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