Santo Kyoden

Iwase Samuru was born in 1761 in Edo, the eldest son of a family of pawnbrokers. A pupil of the engraver Kitao Shigemasa, he signed his illustrations Kitao Masanobu and his books Santo Kyoden, and ran a shop where he sold pipes and tobacco. In 1791, under the reforms of the Matsudaira Sadanobu government, he was sentenced to fifty days in handcuffs for three books on the pleasure quarters. He then turned to graver, more moralizing narratives, and died in 1816.

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• NarrativePlayboy, Roasted à la Edo江戸生艶気樺焼Santo Kyoden · 1785Literature