UTAMARO: oban tate-e (37.1 x 25.2 cm.); a double half length portrait of a beauty and her admirer, a reference in the poem cartouche above to takigawa, alluding to the name of the courtesan depicted, from the series Tosei koi ka hakkei "Today's love poems compared to the eight views", signed Utamaro hitsu, publisher's mark Sensa- good impression, good color though several pigments more faded, stains, tears restored