| Title | "Enjoyable - A Music Teacher, Kaei Era" ("Nikurashiso Ansei Nenkan Nagoyajo no Fuzoku") |
| Series | "Thirty-two Aspects of Women" ("Fuzoku Sanjuniso") |
| Date | 1888 (Second edition printing with one-color cartouche.) |
| Publisher | Tsunashima Kamekichi (Tokyo) |
| Seal, Carver/Printer | Carver: Wada hoir Yu |
| Image Size | 9 5/8 x 14 1/4 (Plus full, original margins--note "kento" mark lower right corner.) |
| Impression | Very Fine. Skillfully "bokashi" shading; over-printed hair to produce layers;
light "gauffrage" (embossing) to patterned collar and hair ornaments;
crisp, highly detailed carving of individual hairlines.
(VIEW representative verso "bleed-through.") |
| Condition | Very Good+++. Fresh, strong colors. Clean front and verso. (Very soft horizontal crease along bottom; few scattered marks; slight toning.) Unbacked. Full, original margins (note "kento" mark lower right corner). |
| Reference/Illus | Stevenson's "Yoshitoshi's Women - The Woodblock-Print Series Fuzoku Sanjuniso" pl.#20 |
| Comments | Dressed in her blue cross-hatched kimono, a music teacher is seen playing her shamisen, a favorite instrument and symbol of the geisha profession. |
| Item # | EG-234 |
| Price | $875 (Sold/JG) |
