The print measures 22” by 17 ½” in the frame and the image is 15 ½” by 11 ½”. It has been museum mounted in a double mat and a very fine silvered wood frame. It is in excellent condition with no toning, tears or foxing. Registration and color are near mint. It was published by Tsuto-Ya Kichizo and dates from the late Edo period, circa 1840s.

It is signed "Eisen-Ga"( painted by Eisen). - Eisen's real name is Keisai Eisen. Keisai Eisen (1790 – 1848) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who specialized in bijinga (pictures of beautiful women in which he portrayed the subjects as more worldly than those depicted by earlier artists, replacing their grace and elegance with a less studied sensuality. His best works, including his ōkubi-e ("large head pictures"), are considered to be masterpieces of the "decadent" Bunsei Era (1818–1830). He was also known as Ikeda Eisen, and wrote under the name of Ippitsuan. Aizuri-e literally means “blue printed picture”. Introduced in part as a response to sumptuary laws which limited the number of colors that could be used in a print, it also was commercially successful, in part because it became fashionable because of the Japanese fascination with new things. Hence aizuri-e, pictures in this technique.

The term usually refers to Japanese woodblock prints that are printed entirely or predominantly in blue. When a second color is used, it is usually red. Even if only a single type of blue ink was used, variations in lightness and darkness (value) could be achieved by superimposing multiple printings of parts of the design or by the application of a gradation of ink to the wooden printing block (bokashi). Aizuri: Literally, "blue printing"; a later artistic effect in which the color blue (typically the newly introduced imported Prussian blue, also called Berlin blue - hence its Japanese name of berorin burau - which was a brighter and longer-lasting pigment than the fugitive native vegetable blue) predominates.