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. Date: 1684. Dimensions: Height: 12.90 centimetres; Width: 16.30 centimetres. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Koshoku ito yanagi 好色いと柳 (BM 1972,0724,0.10)
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