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Cicada (Semi) and Grasshopper (Kirigirisu), from the album Ehon mushi erami (Picture Book: Selected Insects)


画本虫撰 「きりきりす 倉部行澄 蝉 三輪杉門」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1788 (Tenmei 8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26.5 x 32.3 cm (10 7/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession NumberRES.21.455
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #463.13
DescriptionVolume 2, picture 5.
Poems by Miwa no Sanmon (for the cicada) and Kurabe Yukizumi (for the grashopper).
The artist and publisher are identified on the final page of the album.
The complete, intact album: 2003.247.1-2, 2003.248.1-2, 2003.249.1-2, and 2008.167.1-2.
Signed (this page unsigned)
無款