Rat Snake (Hebi); Lizard or Skink (Tokage), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)
Two-page spread from a book. Left page: a gray-brown snake with a lighter underbelly winds through green leaves with blue flower buds; the snake emerges from lower left and curves up and right. Right page: a small lizard or skink with a long tail faces right; text written vertically in black ink on a background with green leaves and blue flower buds, some characters in the upper right. Pages are aged light brown.
Artwork Details
- Date
- 1788
- Medium
- Page from woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Dimensions
- 599 × 403 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original
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