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No. 83582571

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'Abuna-e, Young Lovers Behind a Screen' - Attributed to Utamaro Kitagawa - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)
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'Abuna-e, Young Lovers Behind a Screen' - Attributed to Utamaro Kitagawa - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)

Giovanni Bottero

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Artist: Attributed to Utamaro Kitagawa Title: Abuna-e, Young Lovers Behind a Screen Publisher: No seal Date: c.1810s-1830s Size: 37.2 x 25.8 cm Condition: Vertical centrefold, backed paper residue, holes restored, light soiling, stains around the edges on the back due to old glue. 'Abuna-e' refers to suggestive and sensual images, a substratum of the more explicit 'shunga' [lit. spring pictures]. In Japan, the late eighteenth century saw such imagery banned under new laws, forcing artists who still desired to produce them to leave their works unsigned. Although these designs may appear rather innocuous, some contemporaries considered abuna-e more erotically charged due to their workings on the imagination.

No. 83582571

No longer available
'Abuna-e, Young Lovers Behind a Screen' - Attributed to Utamaro Kitagawa - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)

'Abuna-e, Young Lovers Behind a Screen' - Attributed to Utamaro Kitagawa - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)

Artist: Attributed to Utamaro Kitagawa
Title: Abuna-e, Young Lovers Behind a Screen
Publisher: No seal
Date: c.1810s-1830s
Size: 37.2 x 25.8 cm
Condition: Vertical centrefold, backed paper residue, holes restored, light soiling, stains around the edges on the back due to old glue.

'Abuna-e' refers to suggestive and sensual images, a substratum of the more explicit 'shunga' [lit. spring pictures]. In Japan, the late eighteenth century saw such imagery banned under new laws, forcing artists who still desired to produce them to leave their works unsigned. Although these designs may appear rather innocuous, some contemporaries considered abuna-e more erotically charged due to their workings on the imagination.

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