Kitagawa Utamaro Ehon Mushi Insects Mole cricket, Earwig

  Mole cricket, kera & Earwig, hasami-mushi 
10 inches by 15 inches
UTA3 $245

Kitagawa Utamaro (c. 1753 - 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist who is one of the most highly regarded practitioners of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock prints. The Picture Book of Selected Crawling Creatures, Insects (The Insect Book) 1788, was a two volume set of woodblock printed books with 15 double page prints on paper rendered in ink, color and mica, brass and/or tin dust to create liveliness We are very pleased to offer scarce, exceptional hand-printed, full oban size color woodblock prints that were printed circa 1970 from hand-carved blocks under the supervision of noted ukiyo-e scholar, Yamaguchi Keisaburo.