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Picture Book of Selected Insects (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) 画本虫撰
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Picture Book of Selected Insects (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) 画本虫撰

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 · 1788 · Set of two woodblock printed books; ink, color, and mica (vol. 2) on paper

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Credit linePicture Book of Selected Insects (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) 画本虫撰. 1788. Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013. CC0.
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