| Artist | Yoshitoshi TAISO (1839-1892) |
| Title | "Inquisitive - A Maid, Tempo Era" ("Mitaso Tempo Nenkan Okasho no Fuzoku") |
| Series | "Thirty-two Aspects of Women" ("Fuzoku Sanjuniso") |
| Date | 1888, original print (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 executed "bokashi" shading; over-printed hair to produce layers; extensive light "gauffrage" (embossing) to reed screen; patterned "burnishing" to black kimono areas; crisp, highly detailed carving of individual hairlines. |
| Condition | Very Good++. Strong fresh colors. Clean front and verso. (Small tear repaired upper edge; some thinning upper edge; light wear; light 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.#13 |
| Comments | An elegantly dressed maid peers out from behind a reed screen within the samurai household in which she serves. |
| Item # | FG-091 |
| Price | $1275 |