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Utamaro Kitagawa

出版	Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984
ISBN	08709936829780870993688
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kzu20BbLKtIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

"Although far removed in subject matter from the elegant courtesans for which Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) is justly renowned, the 'Book of Insects' (Ehon mushi erabi, literally translated as 'Picture Book of Selected Insects') is not merely a footnote to the artist's lifework. Rather, it is a pivotal work, one that assured Utamaro's future artistic career and anticipated subsequent developments in Japanese art. For in the book's fifteen delicate designs, the artist has woven threads of Japanese and Chinese artistic tradition together with a naturalism obtainable only through keen powers of observation. Although the title mentions only insects, a variety of plant and animal life is portrayed and rendered with such subtlety and graceful simplicity that the true genius displayed by the artist can be easily overlooked."--Introduction.