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painting, handscroll, shunga
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English: Painting, handscroll, shunga. Erotic scenes: Couples making love. Ink, colour and gold on silk. Signed and sealed. With paulownia storage box.
Date 1688-1704 (c.)
Medium silk
medium QS:P186,Q37681
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Height: 32.60 centimetres
Width: 254 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
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OA+,0.140
Notes The artist Morohira is presumed to have been a pupil of the great Hishikawa Moronobu (d. 1694). He is not known to have designed any sheet prints or illustrated books, and just a small number of signed paintings are recorded, all with a warm and rounded figure style that imitates the works of Moronobu’s final years. In the current absence of any securely attributed shunga paintings by Moronobu, this highquality handscroll using luxurious pigments on silk gives a good idea of what Moronobu’s works of this kind – for he surely did them – must have looked like. The present scroll is incomplete, with only six of the customary twelve scenes: in the first two pictures the couple are still dressed and so they likely come from the start of the original scroll; and in the final picture the artist has included his signature and seal, marking the end of the original scroll. So the fourth to ninth pictures of the original scroll are now missing from the centre of the present work. Picture four shows a scene in the pleasure quarter. A couple are having sex on a checkered quilt and the man holds out his sake cup to be filled by the girl servant (kamuro) of the courtesan, who seems to be laughing into her sleeve. In picture six the couple have their arms tenderly around each other’s shoulders and she gesticulates towards their conjoined genitals. In the early period of shunga production artists signed and sealed their works quite openly, using their habitual art-names, as here. This continued, to a degree, for privately commissioned painted works even after an official ban on ‘erotic books’ (ko-shokubon) in 1722. After this date all printed works were either issued anonymously or, from the later eighteenth century, using ‘hidden names’ (ingo-) (Clark et al 2013, cat. 76). [TC]
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_OA-0-140
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