 The man has one arm around the woman and reaches for her kimono as they kiss.Hayakawa assumes the young woman is the man's mistress, and interprets her as the "distant bay" to whom the older man "returns", or as the male ship pulling into the female harbour.Harunobu appears to have appropriated background and the positioning of the copulating figures from the final volume of Sukenobu's "" of for the "Fūryū Zashiki Hakkei".