| Title | "Enjoyable - A Music Teacher, Kaei Era" ("Nikurashiso Ansei Nenkan Nagoyajo no Fuzoku") |
| Series | "Thirty-two Aspects of Women" ("Fuzoku Sanjuniso") |
| Date | 1888 (Three color cartouche indicative of First Edition printing.) |
| Publisher | Tsunashima Kamekichi (Tokyo) |
| Seal, Carver/Printer | Carver: Wada hoir Yu |
| Image Size | 9 1/2 x 14 1/8 (slightly trimmed lower image) |
| Impression | Very Fine. Nice "bokashi" shading to face, background, and title cartouche; extensive "burnishing" to black collar; nicely visible woodgrain top background; over-printed hair to produce layers; crisp, highly detailed carving of individual hairlines. |
| Condition | Very Good++. Excellent colors. (Margins trimmed; transfer stain upper/right; a few scattered marks, slight soiling.) Retains original Japanese album backing. |
| Reference/Illus | Stevenson's "Yoshitoshi's Women - The Woodblock-Print Series Fuzoku Sanjuniso" pl.#20 |
| Comments | Dressed in a blue cross-hatched kimono, a music teacher plays her shamisen, a favorite instrument and symbol of the geisha profession. |
| Item # | BG-362 |
| Price | $875 (Sold/JH) |