Kunimori I: Rustic Genji
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Kunimori I: Rustic Genji
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Kunimori I: Rustic Genji
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Kunimori I: Rustic Genji
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Kunimori I: Rustic Genji
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Utagawa Kunimori I (active c. 1845–1875), Utagawa Kunisada I (1797–1864) attributed.

Title: Enshoku shina sadame (Judgments on the Erotic Charms of Women)

Complete set of three woodblock-printed books, original binding, 23 pages (17 double pages and 6 single pages) with nishiki-e and 38 pages of text. Based on the literary parody of the "Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji" - “The Rustic Genji”.

Author: Miyagi Gengyo (Pseudonym: Inraku Sanjien)

Date: Edo, 1851

Size: Hanshibon, 24 x 18 cm; Fukurotoji

Original beige embossed covers with title slips, a little bit soiled and worn. Woodblock prints with beautiful colours, metal pigments and embossing, minor soiling, altogether in very good condition.

Ref.: Img. Roger Keyes, Ehon, Katalog NYPL 2006, p. 226–229, No. 56; Andreas Marks: Genji’s World in Japanese Woodblock Prints , p. 63–65; Pulverer Collection, Ehon Shunga FSC-GR-780.23.1-3.

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