Number three: the New Year sky with Chitose from Tsuruya San - Hatsusora no Tsuruya uchi Chitose (title on object) The Nakanochô for the Hisakataya poetry association (series title) association (series title) Hisakataya Nakanochô (series title on object ), Chitose, a senior courtesan from the Tsuruya house, walks with a courtesan in training (shinzô) and training (shinzô) and to the right a maid (kamuro) along New Year's decorations in Nakanochô, the main street of Yoshiwara, the pleasure quarter of Edo ( This is the pleasure quarter of Edo ( present-day Tokyo). With two poems. this is the third page (vrnl) of a five-part, on which high-standing courtesans (oiran) from the various houses from the Yoshiwara are depicted, courtesan, he depicted, courtesan, hetaera, Yashima Gakutei (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1827, paper, color woodcut, h 205 mm × w 182 mm