TWO JAPANESE EROTIC HANDSCROLL PAINTINGS

TWO JAPANESE EROTIC HANDSCROLL PAINTINGS, SHUNGA MAKIMONO

MEIJI PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY

Both in ink and colour on paper, the first scroll depicting many undressed couples engaged in a wide variety of erotic pastimes, with lines of calligraphy above each group describing their activity; the other with courtiers observing many naked men and women, some collapsed with exhaustion, others fully engaged in exercise and others with contorted bodies as they expose themselves, 367cm and 188cm respectively. (2)