Portrait of Tomimoto Toyohina, 1795-1796, Kitagawa Utamaro; Publisher: Ōmiya Gonkurō, Japanese, 1753 - 1806, 15 3/8 × 10 3/16 in. (39 × 25.8 cm) (image, sheet, vertical ōban)23 × 19 × 1 1/2 in. (58.42 × 48.26 × 3.81 cm), Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Japan, 18th century, Tomimoto Toyohina was a much sought-after geisha (entertainer) who performed narrative ballads accompanied by the shamisen. She was one of several non-prostitute beauties, including teahouse waitresses, whom Utamaro depicted repeatedly in the early to mid 1790s. Here she wears a headdress called agebōshi, used by fashionable women to protect their oiled coiffures from dust and wind when they went out. For this image, the printer rendered the agebōshi in pale pink mica to suggest the texture of silk.