EISHI: oban tate-e (38.5 x 25.6 cm.); the courtesan Shizuka of the Shizutamaya seated in robes patterned with tie-dyed sunburst patterns and holding a tobacco pipe on a yellow ground, from the series Seiro bijin rokkasen "Beauties and six flowers of the green houses", a spray of dianthus flowers in the cartouche to the left of the title, signed Eishi zu and published by Eijudo [Nishimuraya Yohachi]--good impression, slightly faded and creased