- SHUNSHOKU TAMAZOROI [ENSYOKU SHINASADAME, 1827?].

Álbum em tecido de seda estampado contendo 3 livros (de 24,8x17.8 cm).

Brochados em estilo japonês, apresentando 25 trabalhos xilográficos coloridos.

Exemplar com vestígios de trabalhos de traça, sem afectar a parte gráfica, e com as capas de brochura apresentando desgaste de manuseamento.

Os trabalhos xilograficos coloridos são distribuídos da seguinte forma:

- 1 livro (de 24,8x17.8 cm) com 12 fólios papel de arroz, em folha dupla, com 14 páginas ilustradas, contendo 8 trabalhos xilográficos.

- 1 livro (de 24,8x17.8 cm) com 12 fólios papel de arroz, em folha dupla, com 12 páginas ilustradas, contendo 7 trabalhos xilográficos.

- 1 livro (de 24,8x17.8 cm) com 16 fólios papel de arroz, em folha dupla, com 16 páginas ilustradas, contendo 10 trabalhos xilográficos.

O tema dos trabalhos é a relação sexual, entre um homem e uma mulher, e a luxuria.

Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞?) (1786 - 1865), também conhecido como Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代歌川豊国), foi o mais popular, prolífico e financeiramente bem-sucedido gravador ukiyo-e do século XIX. No seu tempo a sua reputação era amplamente superior à dos seus contemporâneos: Hokusai, Hiroshige e Kuniyoshi

Os trabalhos deste autor são um verdadeiro achado de quase indescritível prazer artístico. Deste "pintor" das gravuras, mestre de tão intrincada e difícil arte, saíram maravilhas e imaginativo desenho. Notabiliza-se o seu poder gráfico, de uma beleza invulgar.

 At the end of the Edo period (1603–1867), Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Kunisada were the three best representatives of the Japanese color woodcut in Edo (capital city of Japan, now Tokyo). However, among European and American collectors of Japanese prints, beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century, all three of these artists were actually regarded as rather inferior to the greats of classical ukiyo-e, and therefore as having contributed considerably to the downfall of their art. For this reason, some referred to their works as "decadent".

Although not much is known of the details of Kunisada's was born in 1786 in Honjo, an eastern district of Edo. His given name was Sumida Shōgorō IX (角田庄五朗), and he was also called Sumida Shōzō (角田庄蔵). His early sketches at that time impressed Toyokuni, the great master of the Utagawa school and prominent designer of kabuki and actor-portrait prints. In the year 1800 or shortly thereafter Kunisada was accepted by Toyokuni I as an apprentice in his workshop. In keeping with a tradition of Japanese master-apprentice relations, he was then given the official artist name of "KUNI-sada", the first character of which was derived from the second part of the name "Toyo-KUNI". His first known print dates to the year 1807. In 1809 he was referred to in contemporary sources as the "star attraction" of the Utagawa school, and soon thereafter was considered as at least equal to his teacher Toyokuni in the area of book illustration. The date of Kunisada's death was the 15th day of the 12th month of the First Year of Genji (1864-1865). Kunisada died in the same neighborhood in which he had been born.