Details
UTAMARO (1754-1806): hashira-e (61.4 x 13.1cm.); Komurasaki of the Miuraya seated with her hands pressed together looking up at her lover Shirai Gompachi, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Murataya Jirobei--good impression and lightly faded, slightly trimmed, minor foxing, laid down on paper
Literature
For a similar example, see Asano, S. and Clark, T., The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro, (Asahi Shimbun, 1995), p. 179, pl. 345 and Pins, J. "The Japanese Pillar Print, Hashira-e", (Robert G. Sawers Publishing, 1982), p. 284, pl. 782