COMPARISON OF FIGURES: MAN STIRRED BY THE BEAUTY OF HIS SISTER (Teisai Sencho)

Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: shunga 春画 erotic art

Artist: Teisai Sencho 貞斎泉晁 (active ca. 1830-50)
From the book: Amorous Comparison of Figures 艶色姿久良辺, vol. 3 下
Print subject: man stirred by the beauty of his sister

Top right inscription: This young sprout, looking so fresh and youthful, so inviting to sleep with, I fear may be bound in attachment to another man. うらわかみねよげに見ゆるわかくさを人のむすばんことをしぞおもふ (poem from The Tales of Ise 伊勢物語, section 49)

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing

Year: 1830
Condition: overall fair, paper thinnings in the lower part, trimmed margins
Dimensions: 13,5 x 18 cm

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