Lot Essay
Another image from the same set, titled Hirune "Afternoon nap", is illustrated in Suzuki Juzo, Kuniyoshi (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1992), pl. 289, and in Nakau Ei, Edo onna ukiyo-e meisaku ten (Exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e of Edo women), (Osaka: D square, 1993), no. 66.