UTAMARO: oban tate-e (37.2 x 24.7cm.); a half-length portrait of a woman blowing a glass whistle (popen), from the series Fujo ninso juppon (Ten types of women's physiognomy), mica background, signed Sokan Utamaro koga (Thoughtfully drawn by Utamaro the physiognomist), and published by Tsutaya Juzaburo--very good impression, faded and toned, soiled and creased across bottom, right edge and worm holes restored, horizontal centerfold, mica retouched