KUNISADA: oban tate-e (38.2 x 26.1 cm.); a beauty seated in checked and purple robes playing the samisen against a backdrop of oversized joruri libretti, from the series Joruri zukushi "A collection of joruri libretti", a comparison between the contemporary beauty and a joruri heroine, signed Kochoro Kunisada ga and published by Iseya Rihei- good impression, slightly faded and soiled, especially along bottom edge, several holes at edges