Worked in “shishiaibori” enhanced with ink and decorated, on one side of a “bijin” the face made-up with white cosmetics and wearing a “kimono” re-covered with a “uchi-kake” with a leaves pattern (“momiji”?), the other side with two little birds. The ivory of yellow patina, chip on its base.

This standing courtesan, which the coiffure is in the aesthetic views of the time, remembers the female beauty images of “Utamaro” as the famous “Ohisa” from the “Takashimaya” teahouse. They incarnated the fashion, the charm and the seduction, and was considered as alive myths.