Utamaro

Catching fireflies (Hotaru gari)

ca. 1796–97

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Image (triptych): 13 7/8 x 28 5/8 in. (35.2 x 72.7 cm) Image (each sheet): 13 7/8 x 9 1/2 in. (35.2 x 24.1 cm)

Collection no.

JP151

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Utamaro. Catching fireflies (Hotaru gari). Utamaro; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1914. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.