Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) probably 1823 (later edition) Kitagawa Utamaro Japanese 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. Here, the kyōka involve an evening cicada and a spider:Evening cicada, is it you who steals the right moment to fly into another's arms?But you cry constantly like a poor soul living one day at a spider returning to his nest reminds me Of a man furtivel
Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) probably 1823 (later edition) Kitagawa Utamaro Japanese 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. Here, the kyōka involve an evening cicada and a spider:Evening cicada, is it you who steals the right moment to fly into another's arms?But you cry constantly like a poor soul living one day at a spider returning to his nest reminds me Of a man furtively dragging his clothes and creeping up to a lady's Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami). Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, ca. 1754–1806). Japan. probably 1823 (later edition). One from a set of two polychrome woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615–1868). Illustrated Books
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