The Laughing Drinker 絵本笑上戸 - Unlicensed Streetwalker and Regular - ca. 1803 - Shunga 春画 - Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (1753-1806) - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)

Selected by Giovanni Bottero

Object: original Japanese woodblock print Genre: shunga 春画 erotic art Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (1753-1806) From the book: Picture Book, The Laughing Drinker 絵本笑上戸, vol. 3 下 Print subject: Dalliance between an Unlicensed Streetwalker and a Regular Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing Year: ca. 1803 Condition: overall fair, pages glued together, major defects on the lower margin - please look at the pictures Size: 20,5 x 26 cm The woodblock print will be well-packaged and shipped by registered mail with a tracking code.

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The Laughing Drinker 絵本笑上戸 - Unlicensed Streetwalker and Regular - ca. 1803 - Shunga 春画 - Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (1753-1806) - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)

Object: original Japanese woodblock print

Genre: shunga 春画 erotic art

Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (1753-1806)

From the book: Picture Book, The Laughing Drinker 絵本笑上戸, vol. 3 下

Print subject: Dalliance between an Unlicensed Streetwalker and a Regular

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper

Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing

Year: ca. 1803

Condition: overall fair, pages glued together, major defects on the lower margin - please look at the pictures

Size: 20,5 x 26 cm

The woodblock print will be well-packaged and shipped by registered mail with a tracking code.

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The Laughing Drinker 絵本笑上戸 - Unlicensed Streetwalker and Regular - ca. 1803 - Shunga 春画 - Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (1753-1806) - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)

Selected by Giovanni Bottero

The Laughing Drinker 絵本笑上戸 - Unlicensed Streetwalker and Regular - ca. 1803 - Shunga 春画 - Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (1753-1806) - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)