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| Keywords: UTAMAKURA (POEM OF THE PILLOW).jpg Utamakura Poem of the Pillow Christie's online 5731753 9555 34 1788 Creator Kitagawa Utamaro Ukiyo-e prints cm 27 38 5 institution Private collection Asano Shugo and Timothy Clark The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro exhibition catalogue London and Tokyo 1995 vol 2 p 279 Jack Hillier The Art of the Japanese Book London 1987 p 414-416 object history ex-collection Bernard Leach Sold 15 October 2013 at Christies London Price Realized £68 500 <sub>includes hammer price and buyer's premium</sub> exhibition history credit line From left to right top to bottom the scenes are Preface A scaly river monster kappa ravishing an abalone diver as her companion looks on in horror and fascination A widow and her lover beside an open veranda A maid from a samurai mansion with her lover Lovers beside a standing lantern A young woman fighting off rape by a hairy older man A kept mistress with a young lover beside a chrysanthemum-decorated screen A portly married couple A woman discovering another woman's letter hidden in the robe of her young lover Lovers beneath a blossoming cherry tree Lovers in the private second floor room of a tea house A Dutch couple PD-old-100 accession number <gallery> Utamakura 歌まくら Poem of the Pillow jpg No 9 above described as a 'Kabuki actor and escort charms a client with agreeable conversation' https //www britishmuseum org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/asia/k/kitagawa_utamaro _lovers_in_an aspx British Museum </gallery> Uploaded with UploadWizard Uploads by Chris Woodrich Shunga by Kitagawa Utamaro | ||||
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