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Tree cricket (Matsumushi); Firefly (Hotaru), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)
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Tree cricket (Matsumushi); Firefly (Hotaru), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)

Kitagawa Utamaro · 1788 · Page from woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

From the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Credit lineTree cricket (Matsumushi); Firefly (Hotaru), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami). 1788. Kitagawa Utamaro. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1918. CC0.
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