Shunga

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

Oban yokoe.

Erotic scene from the series "Koshuko zue juni ko" (Erotic pictures along 12 months). A courtesan with a customer making love in a room with an open shoji, in the garden a Chinese vessel on a paving stone.

Second later edition with replaced parts of the block (See among others hairdos), compare with earlier editions (Gian Carlo Calza, Poem of the pillow and other Stories, Phaidon, pp. 234-35).

Patterns and colours changed, margins rubbed, left margin probably restored, traces of a former backing, faded, slightly soiled, creased.

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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".