A hair is a symbol of woman.
To put down her hair means her relaxing.
If someone look in the scene when a woman is putting down her hair.
It embarrasse her.
But the man in this SHUNGA can’t stop to wait finishing her hair washing.
I think there were many the impatient in Edo period..
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Title Unknown
Utamaro Kitagawa
Around 1795
題名不明
喜多川歌麿
1795年頃