Miyato of the Kadotamaya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)"

From Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo), this Isoda Koryusai print depicts Miyato of the Kadotamaya, dated 1772 by the Art Institute of Chicago (artwork 36294). The Kadotamaya was a named house of the Yoshiwara whose leading courtesans Koryusai documented across multiple sheets in Hinagata Wakana, and the title cartouche on this design preserves both Miyato's name and her house identification. The composition follows the series template that Koryusai used to dominate Edo bijin-ga throughout the 1770s: a single figure stands in full length against an unmodeled ground, her layered robes and heavy outer over-kimono filling the picture surface with patterned textile, the broad obi tied prominently in front, and an elaborate arrangement of hairpins arrayed above a small-mouthed, elongated face. The pose is angled just enough to display the collars and the front obi knot, in keeping with the documentary aim of the series, which functioned as a portrait gallery of named oiran and as a working catalogue of seasonal design for the houses of the Yoshiwara. The Art Institute's record preserves the named house, the named woman, the year, and the series title, allowing the impression to be situated precisely within the named hierarchy that Koryusai surveyed across more than one hundred sheets.