Item ID: 8538 BUDDHIST PRIESTS EROTIC SCROLL.
EROTIC SCROLL, BUDDHIST PRIESTS.
EROTIC SCROLL, BUDDHIST PRIESTS.
EROTIC SCROLL, BUDDHIST PRIESTS.

Nanshoku

Scroll on paper (330 x 4680 mm.), with seven scenes in brush & ink and color washes, gold-flecked endpapers, gold-flecked borders throughout, silk brocade on outside of endpapers, silver-flecked paper on verso of scroll, wooden core roller. [Japan: late Edo].

A remarkable erotic scroll depicting the visit of a group of traveling Buddhist priests to a roadside inn, where they have much and varied sex with each other and the inn’s female employees, who supplemented their incomes as prostitutes. There are seven scenes:

1. The first scene depicts two young Buddhist priests, one a younger assistant, with walking sticks. They appear to have eye diseases (are they blind?).

2. In this scene, the two priests are being received and served tea by four female employees. One of the women is a “beauty,” another is clearly a younger assistant, and the other two are older women.

3. The third scene shows the beginnings of a party: everyone is still dressed, one woman is playing the three-stringed shamisen, another woman is serving food, and the “beauty” is clearly the object of desire of both priests.

4. The next scene shows one priest having sex in five positions with the “beauty” while the other priest is hiding behind a screen, masturbating. Another woman has passed out or is hiding her head in disbelief or shame.

5. The fifth scene shows a group of about 18 priests who are Peeping Toms, masturbating while watching their fellow priest’s sexual feats.

6. The long and complex sixth scene depicts a full-fledged orgy, with the priests having sex with each other and with the women. One woman is suffering from flatulence (a yellow cloud is emitted from her anus into the face of a priest), and one priest is using a stick to anally penetrate another priest. There is much fellatio, anal penetration, and three-way anal sex between priests.

7. The final scene is moralistic: four naked priests are being stung on their private parts and elsewhere by large wasps.

In fine condition. The paper is a little wrinkled. One small tear, neatly repaired.

Price: $4,500.00

Item ID: 8538