UTAMARO: oban tate-e (39 x 26.4 cm.); a mother and maid playing with a young boy, from the series Tosei kodomo rokkasen "The six poets and today's children", subtitled with the name of the poet Kisen Hoshi, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Izumiya Ichibei, pale pink inner robes and faint purple outer robe on the mother- good impression, only slightly faded, stained, tear restored lower right, otherwise good condition