Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami)
Picture Book of Crawling Creatures is a Japanese woodblock illustrated book of insects and small creatures, attributed to Kitagawa Utamaro and published in 1823 for a general readership. Its double-page spreads pair delicate grey-green and muted colour washes of plants with calligraphic verses and small crawling animals such as beetles, mantises, a snake and a lizard, offering a designer clean naturalistic botanical linework and generous margins of handwritten text.
