A yobidashi is a Yoshiwara top-ranked prostitute. Tortoise shell is very lightweight; but she is wearing so many combs and hairpins in her hair that it makes them look heavy. Her kimono also has a foreign flavor with its stripes and calico strips.

Utagawa Kunisada (1786 - January 12; 1865); also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III) was the most popular; prolific and financially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time; his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries; Hokusai; Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.