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Lot 259
Keisai Eisen (1790-1848)
Closed17 December 2013
Price Realised
GBP 1,000
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Specialist note
Makura bunko was a three-part encyclopaedia of sex, each part consisting of two volumes and each part published in 1822, 1823 and 1824. For another impression in the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto and for further reading see Tim Clark (ed.), Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art, (British Museum Press, London, 2013), p.354-5.