{"product_id":"late-edo-shunga-orihon-hidden-lift-flap-tea-ceremony-miniature-album","title":"Late Edo Period Japanese Shunga Harubon with Hidden Lift-Flap, Erotic Art Colour Woodblock Ukiyoe Book, Tea Ceremony Theme, Miniature Orihon Album","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"jp-product\" data-world=\"Japan Luxury Archive\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jp-lede\"\u003eA pocket-sized shunga album of the late Edo period, built around a hidden flap: a polite tea gathering that lifts away to reveal what the guests are really doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jp-note\"\u003eThis piece belongs to the private room of the house and is shown to adults only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShikake, the trick devices of Edo printing, delighted collectors of erotic pictures, and this little orihon (folding album) is a charming example. Its opening plate shows a hostess preparing tea for three guests in a quiet room. Raise that panel and a hidden scene unfolds beneath it, the joke on decorum that sits at the heart of shunga humour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe theme carries through the whole album. Each plate bears a cartouche naming a utensil of the tea room, the whisk, the bowl, the tea caddy, the kettle, the ladle, the silk cloth, so that the tea ceremony's grave vocabulary becomes a playful index of lovers' encounters. The preface faces a still life of a feather brush and a small dark box. The artist is not recorded, but the printing is of real quality, with lustrous black ink (tsuyazumi), blind embossing (karazuri) and touches of metallic pigment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDetails\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"jp-details\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Untitled shunga album with lift-flap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Not recorded\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod:\u003c\/strong\u003e Late Edo, as attributed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Orihon (folding album), kohon size\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTechnique:\u003c\/strong\u003e Colour woodblock with tsuyazumi and karazuri\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDevice:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lift-flap opening plate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCover size:\u003c\/strong\u003e About 7.2 x 8.6 cm (2.8 x 3.4 in)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMade in:\u003c\/strong\u003e Japan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasured by hand; please allow a gentle margin of about 0.3 cm (0.1 in).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCondition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSlight wear to the spine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOtherwise no notable soiling, damage or worm.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoins and a clear clip seen in some photographs were placed for discretion and to hold the album open; neither is part of it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition grade \u003cstrong\u003eB (very good)\u003c\/strong\u003e on the Japanese scale; see \u003ca href=\"\/de\/blogs\/news\/japanese-condition-ranks-explained\"\u003eJapanese condition ranks, explained\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAuthenticity \u0026amp; Care\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffered as a late Edo woodblock album by an unrecorded artist; the date is given as recorded and is not independently certified. Store flat in its folds, away from sun and damp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDelivery from Japan\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWrapped in acid-free tissue in a small rigid box and shipped insured and tracked by EMS or an equivalent express service. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our \u003ca href=\"\/de\/policies\/refund-policy\"\u003epublished policy\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"jp-closing\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidered offers are welcome through Send an Offer, and each one is reviewed personally. 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