Eight Views of Famous Teahouse Beauties: A Mirror Goyo Hashiguchi and puckered-up mouth: these strange

and puckered-up mouth: these strange attributes in a glance add some soft impressions

but it took much time and money to travel across this river that people call as a wild river

The picture holds the lively charm

Taking a large portion of the screen for a small red pine tree forest make us feel melancholy of the travel

Eight Views of Famous Teahouse Beauties: A Mirror Goyo Hashiguchi and puckered-up mouth: these strangeThis is one of the series of a works illustrated a famous teahouse beauty written in around 1796 (Kansei 8). A haiku poem written in the upper right area indicates this is a portrait of Okita of Naniwa ya. Her left hand symmetrically reflected in the mirror gives us somehow geometrical impression, which increases the attractiveness of her white hand. The reference published in 1793 said Okita was sixteen, so she was about 19 in this portrait. Her