Existing comment:
Woman Holding a Tobacco Pipe
Above the figure of the girl is a comic ode signed Shoku Sanjin:
Uzumi-bi no
Shita ni sawarade
Yawaraka ni
Ii-yoran koto no
Hatabako no gana.
This is a play upon words signifying the wish that he might in some gentle way make tobacco convey his love. |