Sento shinwa (New Strories of the Bathhouse)

Name: UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786-1864)
Brand: Sento shinwa (New Strories of the Bathhouse)
Price: 6500.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 8,125

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UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786-1864)

Sento shinwa (New Strories of the Bathhouse)

Price Realised USD 8,125

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UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786-1864)
Sento shinwa (New Strories of the Bathhouse)
Illustrated erotic book, 3 volumes (complete), color woodblock with fold-out pictures

14 x 9¹⁄₂ in. (35.6 x 24.1 cm.) each approx.

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This type of erotic book with fold-out pages, giving the story an element of animation – is called . This example is by the author Enba II and Kunisada and each volume comprises a single-page portrait of a woman, followed by two stories illustrated on double-pages, a single-page picture of a woman’s genitals, followed by a four-page story.
See Timothy Clark ed., , (London, 2013), cat. 116, p. 388.