{"product_id":"edo-period-shunga-woodblock-prints-six-double-page-designs-brocade-scroll","title":"Edo Period Shunga Woodblock Prints, Six Double-Page Designs Mounted as a Brocade Scroll","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"jp-product\" data-world=\"Japan Luxury Archive\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jp-lede\"\u003eSix double-page shunga designs printed from woodblocks in the Edo period, with a printed text page, now mounted together and rolled in a green brocade cover.\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\u003eShunga, the spring pictures of the Edo townsman, were most often met not as single sheets but in enpon, small illustrated books passed from hand to hand and kept close. Each opening here spreads one scene across two sheets in the classic book format, with flowing dialogue and commentary filling the margins: lovers by a half-read letter and a pot of irises, a quiet room with Mount Fuji framed in its window, a courtesan with golden hairpins before a screen of flying cranes, and a final scene of comic uproar in which a quarrel tumbles into farce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe drawing is lively and the interiors carefully furnished: lacquer stands, a kettle, tobacco sets and patterned bedding. A printed text page with a crested packet completes the set. The designs are unsigned and no artist is recorded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDetails\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"jp-details\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Not recorded\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Shunga, makura-e book illustration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Woodblock print, described as sumizuri (ink-printed), with colour as seen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDesigns:\u003c\/strong\u003e Six, each across two sheets, with one text page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSheet size:\u003c\/strong\u003e About 18 x 15 cm (7.1 x 5.9 in) each, as stated\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMount:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rolled scroll in a green brocade cover with a blue cord\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod:\u003c\/strong\u003e Edo, as offered\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCondition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToning, light soiling and creases at the central folds.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoftly worn and uneven sheet edges; rubbing to one face in the final design.\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=\"\/es\/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 genuine Edo-period woodblock prints, unsigned and unattributed. Keep rolled loosely in its cover, away from light and damp, and unroll on a clean flat surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDelivery from Japan\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe scroll travels rolled, as it is meant to, wrapped in tissue inside a rigid padded box, 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=\"\/es\/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. Further pieces of the kind are kept in \u003ca href=\"\/es\/collections\/shunga-hidden-arts\"\u003eShunga and Hidden Arts\u003c\/a\u003e and in our \u003ca href=\"\/es\/collections\/japanese-woodblock-print-ukiyoe-culture-classical-texts-archive\"\u003ewoodblock print archive\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"jp-cta\" data-world=\"Japan Luxury Archive\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jp-cta-eyebrow\"\u003eConcierge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSearching for Edo enpon or shunga albums? 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