Japan: A samurai wearing a mask takes advantage of a woman planting rice in a paddy field watched by two fellow peasants and the diminutive Mane'emon (who also wears a sword). Suzuki Harunobu (1724-1770), 1770

This shunga is no. 6 in Harunobu's series of 24 woodblock prints: 'Furyu enshoku Mane'emon' (風流艶色真似ゑもん or 'Elegant Amorous Mane'emon'), Edo (Tokyo), 1770.

Harunobu's Mane'emon series illustrate the voyeuristic adventures of a man named Ukiyonosuke who wanted to learn the secrets of love making. To attain this end he drank a magic elixir and became very small, taking the pseudonym ' Mane'emon'.

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