After
post some more technical, I return to one of the main topics of this blog, the Japanese erotic prints shunga 春 画.
Today, I share the images of a volume originally published in the early nineteenth century, and entitled Haru no yume 春 の 夢, or "Dream of Spring." Although it does not contain any signature (even a pseudonym) of the illustrator or writer, we can assume that maybe it is some illustrator 歌 川 Utagawa school at the expense of style. Images of book
play with erotic dreams of people of different social status and class: a middle- age and economic situation is not very favorable with some attractive young woman, a wealthy young man with his master of calligraphy, perhaps, a respectable gentleman with a prostitute in Yoshiwara, the servant with the master of the house, a prostitute with a famous kabuki actor ( to that envisaged in the picture you have in front of it), among others (1) .
This book is an excellent example of mischievous humor that characterizes the literature and popular prints of Edo 江 戸 (1603-1867), and the weight of imagination and of virtuality against the concrete reality of those years.
NOTES
1. Remember that the reading of images per page from right to left.
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