ISODA KORYUSAI (1735 - 1790) AND KEISAI EISEN (1790 - 1848)

Edo period, 1777; 19th Century

Oban yoko-e, A shamisen lesson, from the book Twelve Bouts in the Way of Love (Shikido torikumi juniban), unmounted, together with a Japanese shunga woodblock print book titled Irojiman Edomurasaki, one of three volumes, seven double-page, one folding four-page erotic scenes and two single-page illustrations, fourteen pages of text

26cm high, 39cm long; 22cm high, 15.4cm long (2)

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PROVENANCE:

English Private Collection, the single print purchased at Christie's London, May 15th 2013, lot 22, the book from the same sale, lot 26