| Title | "Cute - A Housewife with Baby, Meiji Era" ("Kawayurashiso Meiji Junen Irai Naishitsu no Fuzoku") |
| Series | "Thirty-two Aspects of Women" ("Fuzoku Sanjuniso") |
| Date | April 1888 (Three color cartouche indicative of first edition printing.) |
| Publisher | Tsunashima Kamekichi (Tokyo) |
| Seal, Carver/Printer | Carver: Wada |
| Image Size | 9 3/8 x 14 |
| Impression | Very Fine. Nice "bokashi" shading to baby's head, background and cartouche; extensive "burnishing" to black areas of kimono; over-printed hair to produce layers; crisp, very highly detailed carving of individual hairlines. |
| Condition | Good to Very Good. Excellent colors. (Faint transfer stain above head; light toning; minor marks, soiling, and wear; trimmed only to image edges.) Unbacked. |
| Reference/Illus | Stevenson's "Yoshitoshi's Women - The Woodblock-Print Series Fuzoku Sanjuniso" pl.#26 |
| Comments | A darling image--this housewife's expression gushing with maternial love for her baby--among the finest images of the "Fuzoku" series. |
| Item # | CG-922 |
| Price | $850 |