Title : Twelve Views of Modern Beauties: Ryogoku Bridge, Woman of Light-Hearted Appearance (Imayo Bijin Junikei: Ryogoku-bashi, Ki ga Karuso)

Artist : Keisai Eisen

Date : 1822

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Source : Scholten Japanese Art
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Description : a bust portrait of a geisha tuning a shamisen, her blue kosode is decorated with white flying bats, her grey under-robe with a bamboo pattern, the cartouche in the form of an emakimono illustrating a view of the Ryogoku Bridge, signed Keisai Eisen ga, with artist's red circular seal Sen on the collar, and with publisher's seal Izumi-ichi (Izumiya Ichibei), censor's kiwame seal, ca. 1822-23

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