In this print, Utamaro depicts Wakaume, the high-ranking courtesan of the Tamaya teahouse in Edo (Tokyo), with one of her child attendants. She looks back at something, giving us a beautiful view of her rich clothing and hair pins, while her young attendant seems to hide from us behind her. The kyōka poem in the upper left corner, by Hachi no Nanko, plays on the meaning of Wakaume's name: "Blossoming from out of / Her snow white robe / Even her name is fragrant -/ The flower Wakaume [young plum]" (translation by Timothy Clark). The print is thought to have originally been the centre sheet of a triptych, similar portraits of other courtesans forming the left and right sheets.

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