PERMISSIVE TONES: TEARS LIKE JEWELS (Kitao Shigemasa)

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

Artist: Kitao Shigemasa 北尾重政 (1739-1820)
From the book: Picture Book, Permissive Tones 艶本免の音色, vol. 3 下

Top inscription: The moon, which people have watched age after age, must be a true memento. At this thought, my tears fall like jewels on a string. 世ゝの人乃ながめし月はまことのかたみぞとおもへばゝなみだ玉をつらぬく (from the song cycle Light Snow 薄雪, translation by Tsuge Gen’ichi 柘植元一)

Publisher: Daikodo 大好堂

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: sumizuri-e 墨摺絵 monochromatic woodblock printing

Year: ca. 1779
Condition: reasonable, significant paper thinnings, trimmed margins
Dimensions: 26,5 x 17,5 cm

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