This shunga is one of Harunobu's series of 24 woodblock prints: 'Furyu enshoku Mane'emon' (憸冽??嗉?????撮????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'.