Handscroll of Ten Homoerotic (Nanshoku) Scenes

Miyagawa ChôshunWW-1700-160804

1700·Handscroll; ink and colors on silk·Image: 10 11/16 in. × 11 ft. 1 7/8 in. (27.2 × 340 cm)

Rogers Fund, by exchange, 2022

Catalogue

Year: 1700
Medium: Handscroll; ink and colors on silk
Dimensions: Image: 10 11/16 in. × 11 ft. 1 7/8 in. (27.2 × 340 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Miyagawa Chôshun

Artist

Miyagawa Chôshun

Painting

Miyagawa Chōshun was a Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style. Founder of the Miyagawa school, he and his pupils are among the few ukiyo-e artists to have never created woodblock prints. He was born in Miyagawa, in Owari Province, but lived much of his later life in Edo, where he died.

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