Shima of Ōmiya, from the series Costume Parade of the Shimanouchi Quarter in Osaka (Naniwa Shimanouchi nerimono)

This 1836 print by Ryūsai Shigeharu, held by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (accession 460874), depicts Shima of the Ōmiya brothel costumed for the annual Naniwa Shimanouchi nerimono parade of Osaka's Shimanouchi pleasure quarter. The print belongs to the same 1836 multi-artist costume-parade series that produced the Met's Lady Huayang sheet (2020.305) and gives the MFA a parallel record of the late-Tenpō nerimono procession in which the leading courtesans of Shimanouchi paraded through the streets in elaborate themed costumes drawn from historical, theatrical, and exotic sources. The print is preserved as a color woodblock print on paper in the vertical ōban format at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accessioned as part of the museum's substantial Bigelow-era kamigata-e holdings. The Shimanouchi project ran across multiple years in the 1820s and 1830s and gave Shigeharu and his contemporaries a sustained subject outside the theatrical stage proper — though the courtesan-portraits and actor-portraits operated in closely linked economies of celebrity culture that defined Osaka popular life. Shima's specific costume identity within the 1836 parade marks the print as a documentary record of a single year's procession.