{"product_id":"shunjo-ause-kagami-late-edo-shunga-enpon-three-pocket-volumes","title":"Shunjo Ause Kagami, Late Edo Period Japanese Shunga Harubon, Erotic Art Gold-Printed Colour Woodblock Ukiyoe Book, Three Pocket Volumes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"jp-product\" data-world=\"Japan Luxury Archive\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jp-lede\"\u003eShunjo Ause Kagami, a late Edo shunga book in three pocket volumes, printed in colour woodblock with touches of gold, offered as a complete set in a marbled paper wrapper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title plays on the mirror, kagami, and every scene carries a mirror-shaped cartouche naming a different glass: a jewelled mirror, a moon-viewing mirror, a double-sided mirror. It is a witty conceit in the true enpon tradition, where word games framed the pictures. The text is credited to a gesaku writer under the comic pen name Itsukado Injin; the artist is unsigned, and the drawing follows the Utagawa school of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor so small a format the printing is remarkably rich. Court ladies with long hair in orange robes, a frontispiece of a lamp and mandarin ducks, a bearded foreign merchant, a comic priest and fashionable townspeople fill rooms of patterned quilts, lattice screens and gold-printed panels. Pocket books like this were made to be hidden, so a clean complete set is welcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDetails\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"jp-details\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Shunjo Ause Kagami\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eText:\u003c\/strong\u003e Credited to Itsukado Injin, a comic pen name\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unsigned, Utagawa school manner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod:\u003c\/strong\u003e Described as late Edo period\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Small book (kohon), three volumes, stitched Japanese binding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePrinting:\u003c\/strong\u003e Colour woodblock with gold printing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCover size:\u003c\/strong\u003e About 10.9 x 8.3 cm (4.3 x 3.3 in)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCovers:\u003c\/strong\u003e Blue leaf pattern; title slip on the middle volume only\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWrapper:\u003c\/strong\u003e Marbled paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasured by hand; please allow a gentle margin of about 0.5 cm (0.2 in).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCondition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTitle slips of the first and third volumes are missing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOtherwise clean and well preserved, with no worm damage noted.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmall discs seen in some photographs were placed over details for discretion and are not part of the book; clear holders kept the pages open for photography.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition grade \u003cstrong\u003eB (very good, light wear)\u003c\/strong\u003e on the Japanese scale; see \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/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\u003eTitle and period are as presented to the Desk; no independent appraisal is implied. Keep the volumes in their wrapper, away from light and damp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDelivery from Japan\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePacked flat by hand in Japan in a rigid carton and shipped discreetly, 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=\"\/fr\/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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