Utagawa Kunisada. Three drunken concubines (Sake-sui no san-shō) / Vertical ōban, c. late 1820s.

Description: Full-length seated figure of a woman facing left, her head turned in trois-quarts toward the viewer. She holds a folded paper in her right hand and drinks from a glass held in her left. She wears a blue kimono with a repeating pattern of purple bird-like motifs over fields of small and large white dots (often described as 'snow and hail'), and a blue obi decorated with irises and bamboo, over a red undergarment. Her hair is arranged in an elaborate coiffure with a tortoiseshell comb and kanzashi, including one with a double-gourd ornament.
At left, a vertical black cartouche reads 酒酔の三妾 (sake-sui no san-shō), “Three drunken concubines”. As noted by Sebastian Izzard, the title appears to play on 酒酔の三教 (sake-sui no sankyō), a parodic allusion to the classical theme of the Three Vinegar Tasters (三酸図), that is, Buddha, Laozi, and Confucius.
The upper third of the composition is rendered in monochrome Prussian blue (aizuri-e), depicting a lakeside landscape with distant mountains, shoreline buildings, boats, bridges, and geese in flight. As per Toshiyuki Hara of Hara Shobo, this background may be identified as one of the Eight Views of Ōmi (近江八景), possibly – Returning Geese at Katada (堅田落雁, Katada no rakugan).
There are two other prints in the series, sometimes referred to as a triptych, also depicting drinking women.

The related fan print, A Tipsy Courtesan from Tatsumi, from the series 風俗三人生酔 (Fūzoku san-nin namayoi, “Three Fashionably Tipsy Women”), presents nearly the same figure reversed in orientation (facing right) and set against a different aizuri-e landscape; see SVJP-0538.2026 for further details. Horst Graebner from the Kunisada Project provided another image from the uchiwa-e series: