Keisai Eisen (渓斎英泉) (artist 1790 – 1848)
Lovers warm themselves at a kotatsu 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
YouTube video link from an exhibition
National Museum of Asian Art
Minneapolis Museum of Art
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Hokkaido 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.
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, #21, p. 51.
For another example of a very similar kotatsu, but this one by Kunisada, see #735.
erotic prints (shunga - 春画) (genre)