Shunga

Shunga is an original modern artwork realized by Katsukawa Schuncho (1726 – 1793) in the half of the 18th Century. 

Erotic scene from the series "Koshuko zue juni ko".

A courtesan with a customer under a kimono stand making love, beside the couple some tea ceremony equipment.

Woodcut Print on paper.

Good conditions: margins rubberd, right margin probably restored, traces of a former backing, faded, slightly soiled, water stains at left side of the setting screen.

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Shunsho Katsukawa (1726 – 1793) was a Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, and the leading artist of the Katsukawa school. Shunsho studied under Miyagawa Shunsui, son and student of Miyagawa Choshun, both equally famous and talented ukiyo-e artists. Shunsho is most well known for introducing a new form of yakusha-e, prints depicting Kabuki actors. However, his bijin-ga (images of beautiful women) paintings, while less famous, are said by some scholars to be "the best in the second half of the 18th Century".