Keisai Eisen
Yui: Shigesaki of the Owariya, from the series A Tôkaidô Board Game of Courtesans: Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara (Keisei dôchû sugoroku/Mitate Yoshiwara gojûsan tsui [no uchi])
c 1821-1823
Woodblock print
Oban size
 
The woman sitting against a shoji screen, resting on one arm, sits in contemplation. The framework of the building highlights the same orange color in her kimono. There is a window in the print that shows a natural landscape.