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Tree Cricket (Matsumushi) and Firefly (Hotaru), from the album Ehon mushi erami (Picture Book: Selected Insects)


画本虫撰 「松虫 土師搔安 蛍 酒楽斎滝麿」
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; 26.1 x 32.2 cm (10 1/4 x 12 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession NumberRES.21.463
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #463.06
DescriptionVolume 1, picture 6.
Poems by Haji no Kakiyasu (for the tree cricket) and Shurakusai Takimaro (for the firefly).
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