File:Print, shunga (BM 2009,3024.1).jpg
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[edit]print, shunga
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| Title |
print, shunga |
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| Description |
English: Colour woodblock print with embossing which is a special printing technique for snowlines heavily on the bamboo outside the bulding. Shunga. Erotic scene: Woman holding umbrella throwing a snowball from outside at lovers in an interior. Unsigned. |
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| Date | between 1765 and 1770 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Asia |
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| Accession number |
2009,3024.1 |
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| Notes |
On a day when the snow is falling and piling up outside, inside a room an adult man is about to have sex with an immature young woman. The young woman does not appear to be objecting: with her right hand she opens the skirts of her kimono, while wrapping her long, hanging left sleeve around the man’s neck. The reason the window is open on such a cold day is, of course, to reveal to us the objectionable goings-on inside, but it also serves to introduce the figure of the man’s wife who is standing just outside and thereby able to witness the events. Sheltered under an umbrella she is just about to throw a snowball at the pair within; clearly she is jealous. Such an implausible scenario was intended to entertain and amuse the viewer. The artist Suzuki Harunobu is sometimes described as the originator of the so-called ‘brocade print’ and certainly he played a vital role in the transition to full-colour woodblock printing in Edo in the 1760s. Not only does this work combine many different printed colours but it also employs skilled printing effects, such as the embossing technique (kimedashi) used to express the soft texture of the snow piling up on the leaves of the bamboo. The colours of the present impression are particularly well preserved, permitting us to appreciate this beautiful shunga print in a state close to when it was originally published. [KT] |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2009-3024-1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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