In borst bijtende man, Katsushika Hokusai, 1815 - 1823

Title(s)

In borst bijtende man
De Adonis plant (series title)
Fukujuso (series title)

Object type

• print
• shunga

Serial number

3/12

Object number

RP-P-2008-5

Description

Naakte man, bijtend in de borst van zijn liefdespartner.

Artist

• print maker: Katsushika Hokusai (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

1815 - 1823

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 257 mm × width 390 mm

What

• man and woman cohabiting

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds and the Goslings NieuwBeerta Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1-Jan-2008

Copyright

Public domain

• Poem of the pillow and other stories by Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and other artists of the Floating World, Gian Carlo Calza, Stefania Piotti, p. 360-367
• Shunga : sex and pleasure in Japanese art, Timothy T. Clark, C. Andrew Gerstle, Aki Ishigami, Akiko Yano, p. 220-221, cat.nr. 59
• Japanese erotic fantasies : sexual imagery of the Edo period, Amy Reigle Newland, Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Oikawa Shigeru, Ellis Tinios, Chris Uhlenbeck, Margarita Winkel, p. 159, cat.nr. 55
• Fukujuso : oban nishikie higacho, Yoshikazu Hayashi, Katsushika Hokusai, Richard Lane, 18,19, cat.nr. 3