Back in 2013 the British Museum ran a splendid exhibition called Shunga sex and pleasure in Japanese art, which featured the largest selection of Japanese erotic pictures seen on display in Britain to date. Given what often looks like a concerted effort by parts of society
in Britain at present to increasingly follow America's conservative views,
rather than more liberal, continental Europe's, on erotic material it was good to
see the British Museum taking this on in such a serious way.
This picture of a woman about to try
out a tie-on dildo on her companion is by Chōkyōsai Eiri, who was active for
less than a decade around the turn of the eighteenth to nineteenth
centiries. This picture is one of
thirteen from his only known printed erotic work Fumi no kiyogaki from around
1801. He seemed to mainly specialise in
portraits of beauties.
The woman with the dildo holds a
container of cream and is saying "As we're going to do it like this I'll
put lots of cream on it, so really make yourself come." She says that the
cream is needed as the dildo is such a big one.
The other girl has her hand on the dildo and is telling her to stick it
in quickly as she wants to come five or six times. Given its depiction as black, the dildo was
probably made of ebony. Wooden dildos
were known as mokuzō but buffalo horn and tortoiseshell ones were common as
well.
It's interesting to note that these
women aren't lesbians in a relationship but are probably ladies in waiting in a
samurai's home, so given the harem-like, women only environment they are just
having sex to provide sexual relief rather than because they are in a romantic
relationship. These tie- on dildos could
also be attached to a woman's ankle for solo masturbation.
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