Title: Picture Book of Selected Insects (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) 画本虫撰
Object type: Illustrated books
Date: 1788
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: Set of two woodblock printed books; ink, color, and mica (vol. 2) on paper
Dimensions: each: 9 13/16 × 7 3/16 in. (25 × 18.3 cm)
Classification: Illustrated Books
Credit line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Insects, term: Leaves