Kuniyoshi Project

Enseki zasshi

(艶勢喜雑志)

1833

This series has been attributed to Kuniyoshi, although Japanese Erotic Art by Ofer Shagan (Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2013) lists it as Utagawa School. Each page of this three-volume set is approximately 10 by 7¼ inches or 25.5 by 18.5 centimeters, a size known as ôban.

Title page

This is an abuna-e (dangerous picture). It is suggestive, but not explicitly erotic. The first image in a series of shunga prints is often an abuna-e.