This is the last one of Utamaro’s three masterpieces of nishiki-e shunga (color-printed erotic picture) albums, following the 1788 creation of Utamakura (Poems of the pillow) and 1799 Negai no ito-guchi (Unravelling the threads of desire). Applied similar styles, the bodies appeared to be rather curvaceous. Komachi-biki (Pulling Komachi) is a popular Edo phrase that stands for “making love to a beautiful woman”, as Ono no Komachi was a legendary beauty of the time.
The preface and text pages are unpresented, however this is a complete set of twelve illustrations from the album. Based on the information from Shugo Asano and Timothy Clark’s publishing The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro (Tokyo: Asahi shinbun, 1995), this is probably the second issue. The intended order of pictures is to-the-date unknown.