EISHI: oban tate-e (38.5 x 25.7cm.); a portrait of the courtesan Shizuka of the Shizutamaya seated at her ease holding a pipe, from the series Seiro bijin rokkasen "Six beauties of the licensed quarters compared to six flowers", title cartouche with pinks (nadeshiko), signed Eishi zu and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--good impression, color faded, yellow ground slightly stained, slightly creased