EditorialCourtesan compared to Koteiken Parodies on the 24 examples of childish obedience (series title) Mitate nijushiko no uchi (series title on object), A courtesan, tipping her wash water over a porch. In the cartouche at the top left an image of a Chinese ...
EditorialSaturn, The god stands on the left leg and with the right bent on a protruding floor for a flat background with an egg frame. He bends the bearded head with the long hair separated in the middle forwards to the raised right hand, with which he holds a ...
EditorialJapanese wedding ceremony. A monk presides over the marriage in a shrine to the goddess of virginity while musicians play on gongs and koto harp, and the bride's childish ornaments are burnt on a pyre. Handcoloured illustration and copperplate engravin...
EditorialLa toilette: Two young women help older women with baby bonnets and false bosoms - while giving knowing looks to the viewer. "Women of 19 and 20 are in open war with women of a certain age (30). They adopt fashions that suit only them, such as flat bon...