MIRROR OF THE VAGINA: RESENTFUL WIFE AND MASSEUR (Utagawa Toyokuni)

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

Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国 (1769-1825)
From the book: Picture Book, Mirror of the Vagina 絵本開中鏡, vol. 1 上
Print subject: A wife, resentful of her husband who went to another woman and has not yet returned, gets a massage from a masseur while consulting an erotic book brought from a rental library. Her private parts have been violated, but as long as it’s not by the penis, she’s willing to let it happen.

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

Year: later edition of a work from 1823
Condition: fair
Dimensions: 27 x 22 cm

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