Passions and Pleasures

December 1, 2007 - March, 2008

The following selection of woodblock prints includes works by early masters, Meiji artists, and a group of anonymous Utagawa School Shunga, or erotic prints. The prints depict the pleasure quarter and its inhabitants, landscapes, and theatrical subjects.
 

(Click on photo to see a larger image of the object, some thumbnails are considerably cropped)

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Bijin by the water

Mizuno Toshikata
(1866 – 1908)

19th century
$250
                                           SOLD
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Modern Beauty Number 8

Mizuno Toshikata
(1866 – 1908)

Circa 1890s
                                          $450
                                           SOLD
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Women in a tea house in autumn

Mizuno Toshikata
(1866 – 1908
)
circa 1890s
                                           $350
                                           SOLD
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Women in a tea house

Mizuno Toshikata
(1866 – 1908
)
circa 1890s
$350
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Women feeding koi

Mizuno Toshikata
(1866 – 1908
)

circa 1890s
$350

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Two women with flowering tree

Ikeda Terukata (1883 – 1921)

$200
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Women in a tea house in autumn

Mizuno Toshikata
(1866 – 190
8)

circa 1890s 

                                         $350

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48.
Women admiring morning glories

Mizuno Toshikata
(1866 – 1908)

                                           Circa 1910

                                            $250

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12th Beauty, April
Migata Toshihide
(1863 - 1925 )
Circa 1901
$250

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Bijin in snow
Mizuno Toshikata
(1866 – 1908)
circa 1910
$250

SOLD