Katsushika Hokusai Collection
Mampuku wagô jin 万福和合神 Vol 1 of 3
The Gods of Myriad Conjugal Delights
( The Gods of Intercourse)
FORMAT: Ehon (Picture book). Oban 9-3/4 X 14-1/2" ( 25 x 37 cm), 12 double-page and 2 single-page colour-printed woodblock illustrations
PUBLISHED BY: Unknown
DATE: c.1821
NOTES: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) produced The Gods of Myriad Conjugal Delights
(Manpuku wagojin) in 1821. It was his last contribution to shunga
in book form. The erotic genre to which he had devoted so much energy
during the ten years of his Taito period. Hokusai seems to
have introduced a kind of reversed, anti-Confucian morality with this
last series.
The first print depicts anthropomorphic genitalia representing manifestations of the gods of conjugality [wagojin], personifying the vagina (bobo) and penis (henoko)
This print illustrates a wide range of sex paraphernalia, each named and which are illustrated throughout the story
The beginning of the story, Osane's parents are joined in a number of complicated positions
Otsubi's parents are described as poor and always hungry, however they are always ready to give in to sexual pleasures
At the age of thirteen Osane hears strange noises from her parents room and discovers them making love.
Each night Osane watches her parents making love until she can no more resist and throws herself at a sixteen year old servant.
Meanwhile Otsubi is working for the merry widow, who has a different lover every night. Otsubi was woken by the cries of extasy and watches her from behind the dividing wall and pleasures herself, one night, the widows lover discovers her little game and once the mistress is alseep slips into Otsubi's room.
Osane has been sent to a mans house by her parents under the name of Ikuyo. Here we see her in the arms of a young man. After many encounters Osane's period stops and she discovers she is pregnant. Making up some excuse she leaves the mans house with her lover to the house with the red sign, where she can have an abortion.
The two main characters, Otsubi (left) and Osane (right), both are thirteen years old
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