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Green Caterpillar (Imomushi) and Horsefly (Abu), from the album Ehon mushi erami (Picture Book: Selected Insects)


画本虫撰 「虻 紀定丸 芋虫 條門橘丸」
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.21.462
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #463.05
DescriptionVolume 1, picture 5.
Poems by Jômon Kitsumaru (for the green caterpillar) and Ki no Sadamaru (for the horsefly).
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