UTAMARO: oban tate-e (37.4 x 24.4 cm.); Hitsuji no koku "The hour of the sheep", from the series Seiro junitoki "The twelve hours of the green houses", depicting three seated women, one at the left speaking to a fortune teller outside the frame of the picture whose fortune-telling sticks lie on the floor, and the one in the middle reading the palm of the girl at the right, first edition with specks of brass dust on the yellow ground, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Tsutaya Juzaburo- very good impression, good color, center fold, minor worming restored and smudge near top, otherwise good condition