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Earwig (Hasamimushi) and Mole Cricket (Kera), from the album Ehon mushi erami (Picture Book: Selected Insects)


画本虫撰 「けら 耶奈伎波良牟加布 はさみむし 桂眉住」
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.21.460
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #463.03
DescriptionVolume 1, picture 3.
Poems by Katsura no Mayuzumi (for the earwig) and Yanagihara Mukau (for the mole cricket).
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