Courtesan and the Ide Tama river The six Tama rivers (series title), Bust portrait of a courtesan with a white headband and sleeve at face, fan-shaped cartouche in the upper left, in which a man on horse crossing a river with yamabuki bushes on the banks, referring to the Ide Tama river in the province of Yamashiro, the patterns of horseshoes, yamabuki blossoms and waves in blind print on the background of the print and the poem in the elongated cartouche at the top left are also references to the Ide Tama river. (bijinga), Kitagawa Utamaro (mentioned on object), 1795 - 1800, paper, colour woodcut, h 374 mm ⊙ w 257 mm.