A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring (Shunshoku neya no shiori) : [volume 3]
A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring is a Japanese woodblock-printed erotic picture book, volume 3, made by the Edo-period artist Utagawa Kunisada in 1850 for a commercial audience of collectors and readers. Its pages are wide double-spread compositions of interiors with tatami floors, bamboo screens and lacquer tables, drawn in flat outlines and saturated blues, reds and pinks. A designer might take its strong flat colour blocks, bold patterned kimono textiles, and the compression of room space into layered diagonal planes.
![Picture 1 of 9 from A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring (Shunshoku neya no shiori) : [volume 3] (1850), leaf 2](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_20745-2-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 9 from A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring (Shunshoku neya no shiori) : [volume 3] (1850), leaf 3](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_20745-3-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 9 from A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring (Shunshoku neya no shiori) : [volume 3] (1850), leaf 4](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_20745-4-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 9 from A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring (Shunshoku neya no shiori) : [volume 3] (1850), leaf 6](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_20745-6-1.webp)
![Picture 5 of 9 from A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring (Shunshoku neya no shiori) : [volume 3] (1850), leaf 7](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_20745-7-1.webp)
![Picture 6 of 9 from A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring (Shunshoku neya no shiori) : [volume 3] (1850), leaf 11](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_20745-11-1.webp)
![Picture 7 of 9 from A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring (Shunshoku neya no shiori) : [volume 3] (1850), leaf 12](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_20745-12-1.webp)
![Picture 8 of 9 from A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring (Shunshoku neya no shiori) : [volume 3] (1850), leaf 16](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_20745-16-1.webp)
![Picture 9 of 9 from A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring (Shunshoku neya no shiori) : [volume 3] (1850), leaf 20](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_20745-20-1.webp)