Description:
Horizontal print of a nude geisha seated in a wooden soaking bathtub (ofuro) with an extra-thick hairpins holding her coiffure (suggesting her high ranks of the demimonde), tearing open condom packages with her teeth. Three condom packages fly in the air. In the background is a long inscription, written in the style reserved for Japanese erotic pictures and interspersed throughout with phonetic signs in red which suggest that the text is part of a kabuki narrative chant (joruri).

Tags:
women; pleasure quarters

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