画本虫撰, Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami), Kitagawa Utamaro, probably 1823 (later edition

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画本虫撰, Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami), Edo period (1615–1868), probably 1823 (later edition), Japan, One from a set of two polychrome woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper, Overall: 9 15/16 × 7 3/16 in. ( × cm), Illustrated Books, Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806), Utamaro was a pupil of the Kanō school painter Toriyama Sekien (1712–1788). Each double-page illustration of insects and reptiles has a pair of kyōka—'comic poems on the feelings of love'—inspired by the images

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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