The Chōjiya Pleasure House by Day (Chōjiya hiru-mise)

A large red, cream, and green phoenix with sweeping tail feathers spans the background across all three panels behind a pale grey wall and mustard-yellow floor. In the left and center panels two women in loose, patterned kimono sit on lacquer boxes, one adjusting an ornamental hairpin, the other with disheveled hair and a fan resting at her side; in the right panel a woman kneeling on the floor bends over a third figure lying face-down, appearing to groom or tend to their hair, beside an open black lacquer box with floral motifs. The palette is dominated by soft peach, olive green, black, and cream, with muted red accents from the phoenix design, giving the scene a relaxed, intimate indoor mood; vertical text cartouches appear in the upper corners and columns of characters run along the lower left and center. Triptych of woodblock prints, ink and color on paper, titled *The Chōjiya Pleasure House by Day (Chōjiya hiru-mise)*, by Chōkōsai Eishō, 1788.