Insect Daimyo Procession
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Behind a flowering branch, growing obliquely in the upper right corner, a procession of insects moves across the panel, going toward the left. Composed chiefly of crickets and wasps, two of which bear leaves, as parasol of honor, and closed morning-glory bud, then come bearers of regalia, a tall pink on a slender stalk, and another long-stemmed flower. In the center, borne on a carrying pole by four insects, is a cricket cage, concealing some insects within it, with a Japanese knot, tasseled, securing it at top. A cockroach prostrates himself before this daimyo's litter. In the rear follow a beetle-like insect, riding the base of a cricket. Several more bearers of regalia, in the form of field grasses; and the procession is drawing by a wasp carrying seed-pods on shoulder poles.
place: label: made in
content: Japan
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Alexander W. Drake
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1918-6-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor on silk with brocaded silk border, mounted on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Framing line: 40.5 × 68.3 cm (15 15/16 × 26 7/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Paper: 46.5 × 75 cm (18 5/16 × 29 1/2 in.)