Harunobu | The Belle of the Tea House Shunga | 春画Artist: Suzuki Harunobu (c. 1725 15 July 1770)Date: 1766 67Publisher: Unknown (~18th C.), Sheisha (1964)Title: The Belle of the Tea HouseMedium: Offset lithograph printed on tradtional Japanese handmade washi paperSize: Envelope 31. 5 cm x 46 cm The Sheisha Masterpieces collection includes what many art historians consider the rarest and most representative works in the history of ukiyo e. In order to make these rare works more accessible, Sheisha
The temple belongs to the Jodo sect of Buddhism and was built in 1573
Intercalary 5th Month
Title: Gion No Nakano
Size: 17cm x 38
Title: The Actor Iwai Hanshirô IV as the Wet Nurse Shigenoi | 四代目岩井半四郎の乳人重の井 | Iwai Hanshiro no Chichiudo Shigenoi
Artist: Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-1979)
Title: Woman in Bathrobe and Grandmother Fondling Baby | 子をあやす母と浴後の女
and is a prime example of the nanga sub-genre of sumie or suibokuga
Series: Exceptional Beauties | 美の美
Title: The View of Tanaka from Nihon-Tsutsumi |
"the brush of Utamaro")
Title: The Actor Nakajima Wadauemon as Tanabaya Hachiuemon | Nakajima Wadauemon no Tanabaya Hachiuemon