Keibô zumô shijûhattei [Wife-sumô fourty-eight positions].

Painting, 17,3 x 20,3 cm: 12 pp., ink and colour with mica glimmer, on silk. Good colours.

Mod. accordion type book, grey fabric, title label on front.

Each page, corresponding to a month, is illustrated with 4 sketches showing a couple making love in different positions, with inscription. The topic of forty-eight positions is an ancient Japanese book topic of sexual positions (from the 19th c. on also for sumo wrestling positions), comparable to the Kamasutra. As the name indicates here: forty-eight positions of "wrestling with a woman".