Keisai Eisen (渓斎英泉) (artist 1790 – 1848)
Lovers enjoying the evening cool [のうりょうのだんじょ] from the series 'Secret Conversations with Courtesans' (Keisei higo - 契情秘語)
1825
15.375 in x 10.125 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese color woodblock print
National Museum of Asian Art
Centre Céramique de Maastricht
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 線香花火 (sparklers) - bijin with small child - she is wearing the same fabric
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
Chiba City Museum of Art This elegant print is only one of a set of 12, none of which show explicit sexual acts. This type is referred to as an abuna-e.
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Illustrated in color in 浮世絵師溪斎英泉, 千葉市美術館 (Keisai Eisen: Artist of the Floating World, Chiba City Museum, 2012, #20, p. 51.
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There is another copy of this print in the Canterbury Museum, Christ Church, New Zealand.
erotic prints (shunga - 春画) (genre)