Woman with a poem, A courtesan, dressed in a kimono with plum blossom pattern and Japanese characters, sits at a table on which is a pile of books. She is holding a brush in her right hand and a strip of paper in her left hand to write poems. On the floor next to her an ink stone. With three poems, courtesan, hetaera, plants, vegetation (flowers, blossom, blossoming), Yashima Gakutei (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1825, paper, colour woodcut, h 212 mm ⊙ w 183 mm.