Woman Seated in front of a mirror

This print departs from Koizumi's primary subject matter of Tokyo landscapes and architecture, entering the [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) tradition of depicting women at private moments. The mirror motif, established in [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) since Utamaro's mid-1790s bust portraits, allows the print to present its sitter from two angles — the back of the head and the reflected face — within a single composition. Koizumi's Western painting training would inform the figure's anatomical handling and the modeling of the mirror's volume, setting the work apart from the flatter conventions of earlier bijin-ga. As with his architectural subjects, every block was carved and printed by the artist himself, consistent with his [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) commitment to single-author production. The print likely sits outside the One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo series, representing the broader range of figure subjects Koizumi pursued alongside his topographic work. The mirror scene thus shows a printmaker fluent in ukiyo-e's classical genres while applying his own carving and printing methods to compose them anew.