Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Spider (Kumo) and Evening Cicada (Higurashi), from the album Ehon mushi erami (Picture Book: Selected Insects)


画本虫撰 「ひくらし 百喜斉森角 くも つふり光」
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 x 32.6 cm (10 1/4 x 12 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession NumberRES.21.465
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #463.08
DescriptionVolume 1, picture 8.
Poems by Tsuburi Hikaru (for the spider) and Hyakkisai Morikado (for the evening cicada).
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