Artists cleverly evaded the government's ban on inscribing the names of women-other than courtesans-on their prints by creating picture-riddles of their names. Here, Utamaro rendered the name of Tomimoto Toyohina, a noted singer, in the box in the upper left as follows: tomi (a lottery, symbolized by the lottery box),mo (duckweed), to (a whetstone), to (a sliding door), yo (night, indicated by a lantern beside the door), and hina (dolls). In 1796, the government also banned such picture-riddles, thus ending artists' use of such playful pictorial devices.