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Weighing the Goods of Love (Enshoku shinasadame) : [volume 3]

Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864 · 1830 · 7 pictures

A Japanese woodblock-printed volume, the third of Utagawa Kunisada's Weighing the Goods of Love, dated 1830 and made in the Edo-period print trade for a general readership. Its pictures show intimate paired figures in softly lit interiors, with densely patterned silk robes, folding screens, and plum branches that a designer could draw on for textile and layout patterns.

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