THE LAUGHING DRINKER: HOMOEROTIC AFFAIR (Kitagawa Utamaro)

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

Artist: anon. after Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (ca. 1753-1806)
Print subject: homoerotic affair

Note: homoerotic reinterpretation of an illustration, originally depicting the affair between the wife of an emporium owner and a delivery boy of the establishment, taken from the vol. 3 下 of the Picture Book, The Laughing Drinker 絵本笑上戸 illustrated by Utamaro around 1803

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

Period: 19th century
Condition: overall fair, wrinkles, trimmed margins, backing
Dimensions: 25 x 16,5 cm

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