Title: Tree cricket (Matsumushi); Firefly (Hotaru), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)
Object type: Woodblock print
Date: 1788
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Artist:  Kitagawa Utamaro 
Artist bio: Japanese, ca. 1754–1806
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Page from woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 7 7/32 in. (26.7 x 18.4 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1918
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Insects, term: Butterflies, term: Plants