Title: Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) 画本虫撰
Object type: Illustrated book
Date: probably 1823 (later edition)
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Artist:  Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 
Artist bio: Japanese, ca. 1754–1806
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: One from a set of two polychrome woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Overall: 9 15/16 × 7 3/16 in. (25.2 × 18.3 cm)
Classification: Illustrated Books
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1918
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Insects, term: Flowers