Shunga - Spring picture on silk Shunga. Japanese erotic painting in colors on silk. Image size approx.18.5 x 23.5 cm. Framed with gold passepartout under glass in partially gold-plated wooden profile 42 X 46 cm. Japan around 1900. Very fine silk painting with the motif of a so-called "spring picture", an explicitly erotic scene showing a calmly chewed young woman in precious kimono robes, the eyes closed, the right elbow on a stack of Japanese blockbooks. Interrupting the reading, she gives herself to the sensual enjoyment of a young nobleman in far turquoise habit, who gently and lovingly penetrates and ejaculates her with reddish cheeks. – A little more darkened and tanned, probably slightly damp-spotted, with kink marks. Not framed, shipping only without frame. - On the cardboard Verso a personal dedication note of the Jutta Princess of Prussia (born. In 1943, he married Prince Michael of Hohenzollern, son of Louis Ferdinand of Prussia and grandson of the last German Emperor William II. She writes, "It's been two beautiful days with you. I hope it wasn't the only ones. Her Jutta Princess of Prussia, dated 14 October 1981. Honi soit qui mal y pense.