Title : Koshoku ito yanagi 好色いと柳

Artist : Hishikawa Moronobu

Date : 1684

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Hand-coloured woodblock print (sumizuri-e). Shunga. Lovers and a pile of bed quilts. This fragment is from an erotic illustrated book; Koshoku ito yanagi on how to seduce various kinds of women. This is image for the 'deposited lover' (azuke-mono), describing a situation when a man cannot afford to maintain his lover in her own residence, ao installs her in a friend's house and provides her living costs.

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