Japanese Works of Art - 27th July 2021
Lot 383
TWO JAPANESE EROTIC HANDSCROLL PAINTINGS
Estimate £300 - £500
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Description
TWO JAPANESE EROTIC HANDSCROLL PAINTINGS, SHUNGA MAKIMONO
MEIJI PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY
Both in ink and colour on paper, the first scroll depicting many undressed couples engaged in a wide variety of erotic pastimes, with lines of calligraphy above each group describing their activity; the other with courtiers observing many naked men and women, some collapsed with exhaustion, others fully engaged in exercise and others with contorted bodies as they expose themselves, 367cm and 188cm respectively. (2)