File:Shiki burui juni-ko 色部類十二好 (Twelve Tastes in the Classification of Passion) (BM 1989,0603,0.1 2).jpg
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[edit]Shiki burui juni-ko 色部類十二好 (Twelve Tastes in the Classification of Passion)
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Title |
Shiki burui juni-ko 色部類十二好 (Twelve Tastes in the Classification of Passion) |
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Description |
English: Colour woodblock print. Shunga. Man making love to six women, possibly a parody of the Seven Gods of Good Luck. |
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Depicted people | Illustration to: Seven Gods of Good Fortune | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
circa 1785 date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Asia |
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Accession number |
1989,0603,0.1 |
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Notes | A handsome salesman has not even had time to open his chest of wares before he is set upon by a group of six lusty young women. Prone on his back, he is tightly hugged by one woman as they have sex. Other women use his hand and leg to stimulate themselves. This may be a comic inversion of the group of popular deities, the Seven Lucky Gods, or Shichifukujin, one of whom (Benzaiten) was female. The large size of the print, twice what is normal, helps to accommodate the orgy. The way in which the sheet was clearly folded into eight suggests that the print may originally have been presented in a colour-printed wrapper, now lost. As the title implies, twelve designs were originally planned for the series but only two are known. The other shows a young man furtively making love with a young woman in summer, while her female companion dozes beside her: the two women had been reading a song book and Shuncho’s signature is printed on a fan in the picture. The essence of shunga was to create a seemingly unproblematic fantasy world of sexual wish-fulfilment, principally for a male audience, but not exclusively so by any means. The historian of Victorian erotic literature Steven Marcus in 1964 famously characterized this kind of closed world as a ‘pornotopia’, that is, a ‘utopia of sex’. [TC] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1989-0603-0-1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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