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Negai no itoguchi ねがいの糸口 (Threads Leading to Desire)
Description
English: Colour woodblock print. Shunga. Opening no. 1 from woodblock-printed album. Lovers in front of a low tea-screen, decorated with a plum tree in blossom, a motif that alludes to sexual pleasure.
Date 1799
date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 25.50 centimetres
Length: 38 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
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1972,0724,0.15
Notes Negai no itoguchi is the second of the three great sets of shunga prints by Utamaro, published eleven years after his early triumph with Utamakura (Poem of the Pillow; Shunga, cat. nos. 48, 49). In the intervening years the artist’s style matured and became, if anything, even more voluptuous. (The third set would be Ehon Komachi-biki [Picture Book: Pulling Komachi], of 1802.) In this scene the couple is enclosed by a low two-fold screen painted with branches of red plum blossom, which in this set of twelve prints may be an indicator for the first month, early spring, or just a well-known topos for sexual pleasure. The towel hanging over the screen surely indicates that they have just come from the bath together. The woman straddles her partner and the scene’s focus, her bottom, is also the topic of their conversation, although the text is mostly an expression of the man’s thoughts and she merely sighs with pleasure. He exclaims how he prefers fuller-figured women with large behinds to skinny ones. He urges her to move her hips more and raise her pussy a bit further. The pose, with the man’s back turned towards his lover while holding on to her, appears contrived. However, the entanglement of limbs emphasizes the passion of the couple, whose faces are depicted in close unison, climaxing with pleasure. Utamaro has depicted the naked bodies with the flowing, supple lines that characterize this whole series, while the clothes are expressed with more calligraphic, sturdier lines, further enhanced by the strong colours. [MF]
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1972-0724-0-15
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