| 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. Nice "bokashi" shading to lips, brown panel, and kimono's purple collar; over-printed hair to produce layers; crisp, highly detailed carving of individual hairlines. |
| Condition | Very Good++. Excellent colors. (A few minor marks, minor soiling lower and upper right edges.) 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 a blue cross-hatched kimono, here we see a music teacher playing her shamisen, a favorite instrument and symbol of the geisha profession. |
| Item # | BG-363 |
| Price | $875 (Sold) |