| Title | "Pensive Love" ("Mono Omoi") |
| Date | April 1878 |
| Series | "Mirror of the Flowering of Manners and Customs" ("Kaika Ninjo Kagami") |
| Publisher | Kobayashi Tetsujiro |
| Seal, Carver/Printer | Watanabe Eizo |
| Image Size | 9 1/2 x 14 |
| Impression | Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading to sky, circular window, cartouche, and face; extensive "burnishing" to double black collar; light dusting of "mica" top of wall; visible woodgrain to grey wall and blue sky; amazingly detailed carving of individual hairlines. |
| Condition | Very Good. Excellent colors. Full, original margins (note "kento" marks right and lower right). (Soft horizontal crease; minor marks; light wear; light toning.) |
| Reference/Illus | "Kunichika--Time Present and Time Past, Images of a Forgotten Master" pl# 20, p60. |
| Comments | Pensive "bijin-ga" image set before a circular window. |
| Item # | MF-01 |
| Price | $425 (OR best offer by 8/05/03) |