To his surprise, an antique dealer in Kyoto immediately offered a set of old printing blocks to an erotic album of the Ming dynasty called Hua-ying-chin-chen, or Variegated Battle-arrays of the Flowery Camp, and a bookstore in Shanghai was willing to provide copies of a similar album from the late Ming.
沒想到京都骨董店隨即願意出讓明代五彩套色木刻畫冊版片廿四幅，總稱「花營錦陣」，是萬曆年間刊行的所謂「秘戲圖冊」；此外，上海一家書店也願意提供類似的明末冊頁供其描摩。