Comment - Portrait of a beauty standing on a verandah, one hand atop a shamisen. A shamisen (三味線, literally "three strings"), is a three-stringed, Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument SanXian. It is played with a plectrum called a bachi. The beauty smiles happily, wearing a kimono shaded from blue to pink and bordered with an unusual pattern of tiny crabs and seaweed, tied with a yellow striped obi. A bridge arches across the water behind her, several boats are to be seen. Many Edo kites ("Edo-tako", "江戸凧") flutter in the sky above. The snow-capped peak of Mt. Fuji can be seen in the distance.

The title is drawn within the yellow cassette on the upper right , adjacent to the red series descriptor.


Series - Tōkiyo meisho geisha jin (東亰名所芸者尽); title drawn within the red cassette on the upper right


Artist - see Biography YOSHITORA


Signature - Yoshitora-ga (芳虎画); lower left, larger cassette


Publisher - Jōshūya Jūzō / Jōshūya Jūbei (上州屋重蔵 / 上州屋重兵蔵), Kinjū-dō Publisher's (錦重 堂); (by seal name Jōjū (上重)


Image Size - 36.2 x 24.8 cm  (14 1/4" x 9 3/4") + top margin as shown


Condition - single sheet; nishiki-e (cloured woodblock); vertical ôban (ôban tate-e);