HOSODA EISHI: oban tate-e (38.8 x 24.5 cm.); a portrait of the beauty Komurasaki of the Kadotamaya seated reading a letter, from the series Seiro bijin rokkasen "Six beauties of the licensed quarters compared to flowers", yellow ground, signed Eishi zu and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi [Eijudo]-- good impression, color faded, lightly creased and soiled, binding holes along right edge, trimmed into publisher's seal bottom edge