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A rare and important nanshoku (male-male) shunga handscroll Edo period (1615-1868), early 18th century by 
																	Miyagawa Choshun

Miyagawa Choshun

( Japanese, 1682 - 1752 )

A rare and important nanshoku (male-male) shunga handscroll Edo period (1615-1868), early 18th century

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Materials:

In ink and colors on silk

Size Notes:

10.75 x 137.375 in. (27.2 x 340 cm.)

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Markings:

each between an older man and a younger samurai dressed in female apparel and with a female hairstyle, the fifth to ninth scenes more explicit than the others; signed in two places: once on a screen forming part of the penultimate scene Hishikawa Ch?shun hitsu (brushed by Hishikawa Ch?shun) with an abbreviated seal and a second time at the end of the scroll Hishikawa Ch?shun hitsu with seals Ch?shun no in (seal of Ch?shun) and Hishikawa-shi no in (seal of Hishikawa)

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