Dressed in her night clothes, a courtesan stops reading her books for a moment to read a letter by the light of a lantern - perhaps it has just arrived, in the middle of the night. This appears to be a print by the little-known ukiyo-e artist Komai Yoshinobu, although some institutions have suggested artists such as Yamamoto Yoshinobu and Suzuki Harunobu.

There is some beautiful and extremely detailed karazuri blind-embossing done in the style of nunome-zuri (a technique in which a piece of actual cloth is "printed" using a woodblock) on the courtesan's kimono, a highlight of the print.