Chūrui gafu / [chosha, Morimoto Tōkō]

Morimoto, Tōkō, -1947 · 1910 · Kyōto: Unsōdō · 16 pictures

Chūrui gafu is a 1910 Kyoto book of insect studies by Morimoto Tōkō, published by Unsōdō, drawn from Japanese colour-print traditions. The pictures show butterflies, grasshoppers and crickets set among leaves, grasses and flowering vines, with a designer able to borrow their spare placement of single creatures on pale ground and their precise botanical linework.

Insects -- Japan -- Pictorial works · Insects in art · Color prints, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 · Kyōka

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