UTAMARO: oban tate-e (36.8 x 24.7 cm.); a bust portrait of a young woman writing a letter subtitled Honshomono "A woman of composure", from the series Kyokun oya no megane "Morals seen through the parent's spectacles", signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Tsuruya Kinsuke--very good impression, slightly faded, minor worming restored, trimmed into edges