EditorialRiver Landscape with Fireflies. Date/Period: 1874. Painting. One of a pair of six-fold screens: ink with slight color and gold paint on paper One of a pair of six-fold screens: ink with slight color and gold paint on paper. Height: 1,728.22 mm (68.04 i...
EditorialWatching Fireflies on a Summer Night, Meiji period (1868?1912), Japan, Frontispiece; polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, Album: 8 1/2 x 5 5/16 in. (21.6 x 13.5 cm), Prints, Mishima Shoso (Japanese, 1856?1928).
EditorialFireflies Over the Uji River by Moonlight, Meiji period (1868?1912), Japan, Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk, Image: 48 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (123.8 x 49.5 cm), Paintings, Suzuki Shonen (Japanese, 1849?1918), This atmospheric picture of shining ...
EditorialTwo Girls Catching Fireflies, Edo period (1615?1868), first half of the 18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk, 33 3/4 x 10 5/8 in. (85.7 x 27 cm), Paintings, Kawamata Tsunemasa (active 1716?48), A young girl accompanied by a...
EditorialHotaru gari, Catching fireflies., Katsukawa, Shunsen, 1762-approximately 1830, artist, [181-], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 24.5 x 37.1 cm., Print shows three women and two boys next to a small shrine along the shore, one of the women and one of boys hav...
EditorialHotaru gari, Catching fireflies., Katsukawa, Shunsen, 1762-approximately 1830, artist, [181-], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 24.5 x 37.1 cm., Print shows three women and two boys next to a small shrine along the shore, one of the women and one of boys hav...
Editorial'Hunting for insects', Japan, Edo period, c1768. A pair of lovers hunt for insects, probably fireflies or chirping crickets, on an early autumn night. A small cage stands ready on the ground while the young man searches through a plant of bush clover. ...