The print is shown in the main reference book on this series – “Yoshitoshi’s Women: The Wood-block Print Series Fuzoku Sanjuniso”, John Stevenson, Boulder, 1986, plate 14. The print is named “The Appearance of a Geisha of the Licensed Quarters in the Koka Era”. This is a later edition as can be seen by the fact that the cartouche in the upper right does not have three colors as found in the first edition. We would date it to the late 1880s, Meiji period.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - June 9, 1892) (Japanese: 月岡 芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇 芳年) was a Japanese artist. He is widely recognized as the last great master of Ukiyo-e, a type of Japanese woodblock printing. He is additionally regarded as one of the form's greatest innovators. His career spanned two eras – the last years of feudal Japan, and the first years of modern Japan following the Meiji Restoration. The series known as”Thirty-Two Aspects of Customs and Manners” is also known as (Yoshitoshi's Women: The Print Series 'Fuzoku Sanjuniso) and was one of his most highly regarded of his late series of prints.