NAMICHIDORI (PLOVERS ABOVE WAVES)

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Namichidori (Plovers above Waves) THE COMPLETE SET OF TWELVE EROTIC PRINTS with handcoloring, white mica highlights and grounds and mounted on white mica-applied paper in one volume, in later brocade covers patterned with plovers and waves--good impressions, some fading, stains, creases, repairs and losses to mica Illustrations: 1. A sexually fulfilled mother with her infant boy 2. Two penniless lovers rendezvous in a private outdoor spot 3. A widow exhausts her young lover; a box of sex toys is in the lower left 4. A passionate matron swoons under the embrace of her young lover 5. A wife instructs her husand how to pleasure her 6. A clownish bathhouse attendant (sansuke) forces himself on a young woman in a corner of a bathhouse; a servant without a purse, he stores his coin in his ear 7. A commoner husband and wife make love on a balmy summer night beneath a mosquito net 8. A young man enjoys a rare meeting with his lover, a popular courtesan 9. Taking advantage of her husband's absence a wife has invited her lover into her bedroom for amusements 10. A female abalone diver and her fisherman lover; the diver tries to dodge her lover's questions inspired by rumors of her infidelity 11. Another commoner wife joyous at her husband's absence calls in her lover 12. A man suckles his pregnant wife, indicated by the sash around her belly oban yoko-e: 9 7/16 x 14 5/16in. (24 x 37cm.) each approx.