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Antique Japanese Shunga Makimono, Kawabata Gyokusho browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese: Pre 1910: item # 837251 Please refer to our stock # ALR2482 when inquiring.
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| A bizarre hand painted erotic tale enclosed in a period custom made kiri-wood box attributing the work to well known artist Kawabata Gyokusho and titled Nyogo-no-Shima-Gi Ga-Maki (Freak Protectors of the Island Women Hand Scroll), a tale connected with the Heike wars. A visiting priest ravishes the wife alone, she resists but then seems to concede to his onslaught. Onlookers tumble over themselves beginning a fray which degenerates into an orgy of men, women and spirits. Vaginal specters steal away with the mens members, loading them onto a ship like lumber and setting sail from the devastated Isle. As is typical the scroll is unsigned. The scroll is huge at 37 feet (11.3 meters) long, 11-1/2 inches (29 cm) wide and is in fine condition. It is bound in green silk patterned with waves with a brown silk chord and bone rollers. Gyokusho (1842-1913) was a Meiji period painter born into a Kyoto lacquer workers family (perhaps explaining his very delicate, exacting approach) and initially trained under the Shijo School painter Nakajima Raisho. He relocated to Tokyo when the capitol was officially located there in the Meiji period. Here he flourished, dabbling in Western painting techniques and becoming professor at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts. He was later named to the Imperial Art Academy and submitted work to the 1900 Paris International Exposition. Works by the artist are held in the Tokyo National Museum, Imperial Art Collection, New York Metropolitan, Boston Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert and many many others. One of the more influential artists of the Meiji, and considered to be the last great representative of the Shijo school. | |||||||||||||||
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