By Robert Hans Van Gulik, James Cahill, Wilt L. Idema, Sören Edgren
In 1949, the sinologist Robert van Gulik bought in a Tokyo curio-shop a suite of printing blocks of a Ming erotic album. years later the album, with an intensive treatise, was once released through van Gulik himself in a 50-copy print run and despatched to a small staff of sinological libraries, as "the erotic prints and different info ought to not fall into the arms of unqualified readers". It used to be to be the author's first paintings at the topic, previous his groundbreaking "Sexual existence in historic China". Unqualified readers have now finally develop into certified with this legitimate version. James Cahill, Wilt Idema and Soeren Edgren offer readers with introductions to its paintings ancient, literary, biographical and publication technical content material.
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It is only in the final act, when Shun’s stepmother orders him to come home, that the filial son relents, returns, and resumes the throne. The portrayal on stage of the sages of antiquity was quite rare in Ming times. Actually, it had been expressly forbidden in the early years of the dynasty. The subject-matter of Ch’i-tung chüeh-tao is therefore quite original, and the modern scholar Tseng Yong-yih is quite effusive in his praise for the construction of the play,50 echoing the fulsome praise of Ch’i Piao-chia (“He mixes together the persons and facts of the reigns of Yao and Shun for the amusement of literati: how extraordinary!
54 In view of the frequent references in the early pornographic novels to sexual encounters between men (usually, but not exclusively, of unequal social status and/or age) without any suggestion of an exclusive homosexuality on the part of any of the parties involved, one is puzzled why Van Gulik wants to insists that Picture 4 of Hua-ying chin-chen depicts a man and a girl engaging in anal intercourse. The title of the picture (“The Way of the Academicians”), the conspicuously displayed bare natural foot, and the references in the accompanying poem to exemplars of male lii .
This edition was seen by Nagasawa Kikuya and not seen by van Gulik. It may be a variant edition based on (c). There is no concrete evidence by which to judge this edition. Yuan-yang mi-p’u (e). Album in the X-collection (Shanghai). Contains 30 woodcuts (printed in black, red, blue, green, and yellow) with accompanying poems. 1624 edition. The cover page reads “Ch’ingch’un t’u”, “Mu-tan-hsüan hsiu-tzu”. Other evidence for the publisher Mu-tan-hsüan has not been found. Plates XIII and XIV are “reconstructed” by van Gulik (see p.