Description
Horsefly and Green Caterpillar brings a small flying insect and a caterpillar among large leaves and a rising reddish stem in this illustrated book spread. Calligraphy occupies the facing area. Kitagawa Utamaro makes the horsefly and green caterpillar named in the title part of a close garden encounter, where modest creatures are brought forward for sustained attention.
The 1788 book brought Utamaro’s designs together with contemporary poetry. This individual woodblock-printed page uses ink and color on paper, giving the creatures a lasting visual presence within a literary project. Its appeal lies in that shift of scale, where subjects often passed over become an encounter worthy of sustained looking and where differences between small forms can remain central.
Read our guide to giclée prints or browse the Kitagawa Utamaro collection.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.