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Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) 画本虫撰
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Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) 画本虫撰

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 · probably 1823 (later edition) · One from a set of two polychrome woodblock printed books; 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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Illustrated BooksAsian ArtJapan
Credit linePicture Book of Crawling Creatures (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) 画本虫撰. probably 1823 (later edition). Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1918. CC0.
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