UTAMARO: oban tate-e (37 x 24.5 cm.); a half-length portrait of a beauty, her head turned to one side and her left hand clutching her collar, from the series Bijin gomen so "Five physiognomies of women", signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Tsuruya Kiemon- moderately good impression, color faded, surface rubbed and soiled in places, corner and some worming restored