(Shunga Emaki, Japanese Erotic Hand Scrolls.) Twelve circa l...

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(Shunga Emaki, Japanese Erotic Hand Scrolls.) Twelve circa late C19th/C20th Shunga Erotic scrolls, including circa late 19th/Early 20th Century Meiji/Taisho period example, 10 explicit erotic colour woodblock scenes, each approx 20 x 23cm, overall size approx. 20 x 300cm, paper scroll with a printed title, mounted on a wooden roller with a patterned silk 'wrapper' secured to a wooden batten with a retaining cord, plus another similar with 10 explicit erotic colour woodblock scenes, each approx 20 x 29cm, overall size approx. 25 x 360cm, paper scroll with a printed title, mounted on a wooden roller with a patterned silk 'wrapper' secured to a wooden batten with a retaining cord, plus 4 others possibly earlier 20th Century, each with either 6, 7 or 8 erotic colour scenes (combined 28 erotic scenes in total over these 4 scrolls), each paper scroll with printed title, mounted on a wooden roller, secured to a wooden batten with a retaining cord; plus 6 others similar probably circa mid 20th Century, together with two ten panel erotic (Shunga) scenes, a treen scroll box, carved jade? erotic figure, all housed together in a late 19th Century oriental red lacquered cow hide covered pine box, brass escutcheons, linen lined interior, contemporary printed label to inside of lid