旅の美

Travelling Beauty

The beauty of Travelling

旅行之美

『風流艶色真似ゑもん 』Fūryū Enshoku Mane'emon N°9), vol. 1, 鈴木春信

風流艶色真似ゑもん Elegant Amorous Mane'emon 春画 Shunga

From 伊香保、Ikaho to 江戸、Edo, N° 9 from the book『風流艶色真似ゑもん 』Fūryū Enshoku Mane'emon, Elegant Amorous Mane'emon vol. 1, 鈴木春信、Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1768-1770, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art.

Woman partially seated on a white horse, wearing a red plaid kimono and a wide-brimmed hat, engaged in intercourse with a standing man wearing green knee-high socks; tiny man smoking a pipe seated beneath a tree in LRC; text in URC in a cloud; three areas of text at the bottom on the grey path.

The gait of her trotting horse has put a travelling beauty into the mood so she seduces the horse driver while waiting for a ferry; the enthusiastic attendant waives his fee and offers to take her two stops further to 荒川の熊谷堤防、the Kumagaya embankment on the Arakawa River.

Size: 8 5/16 × 11 1/4 in. (21.11 × 28.58 cm) (sheet, horizontal chūban)

Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper.