Item from the Mokuhankan Flea MarketFrog and Gold Beetle![]() Size: 26.5cm by 38.0cm (10.43 in by 14.96 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ? Designer: Kitagawa Utamaro Era: Early Showa | Currency: $ / £ / € Price: ![]() Description: The print is from Utamaro's series Pictures of Insects (Ehon Mushi Erami); a collection of 15 designs of insects and other garden creatures that pairs various insects with humorous or suggestive poems (kyoka) reflecting on human behavior. The poems were written by Ishikawa Masamochi.
The accompanying kyoka on the right reads: My love, delivered by letter, refused as though it were a frog shaking water from its face in a pond. I am as pitiful as a gold beetle hiding under your pillow and burning with desire.
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