Kawanabe Kyōsai. Kiyomizu tsuya monogatari (清水艶物語, Tale of a Night in Kiyomizu) / Ehon page (shunga), 1867.

Ehon page (hanshibon format), leaf 176 × 225 mm; image 160 × 205 mm.

Recto: On a checkered floor, an amorous couple in oral 69-style intercourse, on the left; a woman in a dark robe with a large-scale foliate/karakusa pattern, masturbating or expelling semen following intercourse, on the right; figures rendered in Kyōsai's exaggerated, near-caricatural style. On the back, a European woman smoking a pipe, on the left. On the right, three European men in Western dress. One, bearded, smokes a pipe, his penis shown erect. Opposite him, a second man's penis is rendered as an eel — a recurring motif in shunga, and a third man rests a hand on his companion's shoulder. Purple, yellow-and-red drapery at margins; gold cloud-form motifs at center.

Verso: part of the book's table of contents (mokuji, 目次), with chapter numbers 第六 through 第十一 (six through eleven) in scalloped cartouches.

Note on dimensions: Uhlenbeck & Winkel classify the book as chūbon, 120 × 415 mm for the first fold-out (Israel Goldman Collection copy). Our copy shows different dimensions: hanshibon format, 176 × 225 mm.

Publication data (per Uhlenbeck & Winkel 2005, cat. no. 96a — Israel Goldman Collection, London):

Kiyomizu tsuya monogatari (清水艶物語, "Tale of a Night in Kiyomizu"), also known as Renri no eda hiyoku (連理の枝比翼, "Lovers Who Love Each Other like Two Trees with One Branch and Two Birds with One Wing"). Woodblock-printed ehon, two volumes, 1867 (Keiō 3). This leaf is one of Kyōsai's concealed "secret leaves" (hidden fold-outs opening from behind the contents page), distinct from the conventional, non-shunga illustrations by an anonymous second artist that appear in the book's normal page sequence. Text author (tentative): Ryūsuitei Tanekiyo (立翠亭種清, 1821–1907); possibly identical with Koikawa Shōzan under the shared pseudonym Insuitei (淫水亭) — cf. Sergei's prior research on Ukiyo Genji Gojūshijō. Requires further confirmation before merging the two authority records.

Reference: Chris Uhlenbeck and Margarita Winkel, Japanese Erotic Fantasies: Sexual Imagery of the Edo Period, Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005, cat. no. 96a (LIB-2971.2022).