In this print, designer Eishosai Chōki has depicted the top-ranked courtesan Tsukasa-dayū of the Higashi-Ōgiya. She lived in Shin-Machi, Osaka, probably in the late 18th to early 19th century, and here we see her in full splendour. She looks back over her shoulder at something, perhaps a customer, giving us a view of her handsome features and extravagant kimono. Her teeth are blackened to enhance her beauty. In the print we see the use of rich dark mica with a ‘roughened’ patterning to it - the style of the day.

This is a reproduction of a print originally published by Tsutaya Jūzaburō in the late 1790s as part of the "The Shinmachi Quarter of Osaka" (Ōsaka Shinmachi, 大阪新町) series of prints. While fairly unknown as an artist, Chōki, the designer, was a pupil (and possibly the adopted son) of Toriyama Sekien, who also taught Utamaro.