 Harunobu employs a range of contrasts—white cloth on black "nurioke", public work and private, male and female—from which Hayakawa surmises the unseen male dog must be black, stating that such calling forth of the imagination was one of the pleasures of "mitate" for contemporary viewers.Harunobu appears to have appropriated the positioning and gestures of the copulating figures from the ninth page of Sukenobu's "" of 1722 for the "Fūryū Zashiki Hakkei".