{"product_id":"utagawa-kunimori-ukiyo-genji-gojuyon-jo-shunga-enpon-middle-lower-volumes","title":"Utagawa Kunimori Ukiyo Genji Gojuyon-jo, Japanese Shunga Harubon, Erotic Art Colour Woodblock Ukiyoe Book, Middle and Lower Volumes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"jp-product\" data-world=\"Japan Luxury Archive\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jp-lede\"\u003eTwo volumes of Ukiyo Genji Gojuyon-jo, a floating-world retelling of the Tale of Genji, with colour woodblock plates by Utagawa Kunimori and a text by Ryusuitei Tanekiyo.\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\u003eThe Tale of Genji was the great romance of the Heian court, and from the 1830s the Edo publishing world never tired of moving it into its own streets. Ukiyo Genji, a Genji of the floating world, belongs to that fashion in its intimate form: the enpon, a privately circulated picture book in which the fifty-four chapters become a sequence of love scenes in townhouses, verandas and moonlit gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plates are by Utagawa Kunimori, a designer of the Utagawa school, and the story is by the popular writer Ryusuitei Tanekiyo. Every plate sits inside a blue border patterned with the Genji incense emblems and carries a small title cartouche; the frontispieces pair a dressed couple with a lyrical title page, a round fan in one volume and a tray of blossoms in the other. The printing is fine and closely registered, with rich reds, greens and ochres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are the middle and lower volumes of a set of three; the upper volume is lacking. Both keep their original ochre covers with title slips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDetails\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"jp-details\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ukiyo Genji Gojuyon-jo, middle and lower volumes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Utagawa Kunimori, as attributed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eText:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ryusuitei Tanekiyo, as attributed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Enpon (shunga picture book), Genji parody\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTechnique:\u003c\/strong\u003e Colour woodblock printing on Japanese paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Two volumes, stab-bound in the Japanese manner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCover size:\u003c\/strong\u003e About 22 x 15.2 cm (8.7 x 6.0 in)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCovers:\u003c\/strong\u003e Original covers with title slips\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 0.5 cm (0.2 in).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCondition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLight soiling from age; very little thumbing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo worm damage and no missing leaves in the two volumes offered.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe upper volume of the set is not included.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe small coins seen on some plates were placed only for discretion in photography and are not part of the book.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvery photograph is part of the description.\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=\"\/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\u003eOffered as a woodblock-printed enpon with plates by Utagawa Kunimori and text by Ryusuitei Tanekiyo; the attribution is given as recorded for the book and is not independently certified. The book is undated. Store flat, away from sun and damp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDelivery from Japan\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two volumes are wrapped flat in acid-free tissue between rigid boards 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=\"\/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. Further pieces of the kind are kept in \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/shunga-hidden-arts\"\u003eShunga and Hidden Arts\u003c\/a\u003e and in our \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/japanese-woodblock-print-ukiyoe-culture-classical-texts-archive\"\u003earchive of woodblock prints and classical texts\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\u003eHoping to complete the set with its upper volume? 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