EISEN (1790-1848), oban tate-e, 38.9 x 27cm., an okubi-e of a courtesan reading a letter with a toothpick bewtween her teeth, from the set Imayo bijin juni-kei 'Fashionable beauties, twelve sceneries', the view of Yoshiwara in a scroll-shaped cartouche above, signed Keisai Eisen ga, published by Izumiya Ichibei, kiwame seal, good impression, rather faded, tiny holes; and another by EIZAN, probably a sheet from a larger composition, boys in and by a stream watched by a young woman, good impression and colour, worm holes restored, a vertical fold mark (2)