File:Painting, handscroll, shunga (BM OA+,0.138 4).jpg
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painting, handscroll, shunga
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| Title |
painting, handscroll, shunga |
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| Description |
English: Painting, handscroll. Three sections from a handscroll, now remounted together. Workman displaying his sexual prowess and gigantic size of his member in variety of situations. Ink, colour and gold on paper. Inscribed. |
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| Date | between 1848 and 1868 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions |
Height: 29.70 centimetres
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| Current location |
Asia |
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| Accession number |
OA+,0.138 |
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| Notes |
Clark 1992 In three separate fragments from a handscroll, now remounted together, a workman displays his sexual prowess and the gigantic size of his member in a variety of challenging situations. The text is generally crude and jocular ('mine's the biggest in all Japan!'). The scene depicted shows him piercing a stack of (?)roof tiles ('Ow! Let's show you I can stick it through these'); and otherwise he is seen making love five times a night to a voracious woman, with his phallus resting on a festival cart pulled by two naked women, shattering a metal cauldron, and with a child swinging on Uncle's 'thing'. Phallic worship was an ancient and important part of Shinto and folk belief, and there are comic works from the Edo period in this tradition (Suntory Museum of Art (eds), 'Nihon no giga', exh. cat., Tokyo, 1986, nos 101, 102). The style here suggests a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, who regularly designed erotic works. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_OA-0-138 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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