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Katydid (Umaoimushi) and Centipede (Mukade), from the album Ehon mushi erami (Picture Book: Selected Insects)


画本虫撰 「馬追虫 唐衣橘洲 むかて 鹿都部真顔」
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; 25.8 x 32.4 cm (10 3/16 x 12 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession NumberRES.21.459
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #463.02
DescriptionVolume 1, picture 2.
Poems by Karagoromo Kisshû (for the katydid) and Shikatsube no Magao (for the centipede).
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