Live auction - Lot 904
[Shunga - Painting]
Keibô zumô shijûhattei [Wife-sumô fourty-eight positions].
Early 20th c
Hammer price: €
120
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
Painting, 17,3 x 20,3 cm: 12 pp., ink and colour with mica glimmer, on silk. Good colours.
Mod. accordion type book, grey fabric, title label on front.
Each page, corresponding to a month, is illustrated with 4 sketches showing a couple making love in different positions, with inscription. The topic of forty-eight positions is an ancient Japanese book topic of sexual positions (from the 19th c. on also for sumo wrestling positions), comparable to the Kamasutra. As the name indicates here: forty-eight positions of "wrestling with a woman".