Minneapolis Institute of Art
(Mosquitos)
San'ai Sanjin
- Date
- 19th century
- Medium
- Woodblock print (surimono), ink and color on paper
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Mosquitoes are a universal-and annoying-part of summer the world over. However, this depiction of two mosquitoes in flight, with their long, slender legs and delicately colored wings, is a charming interpretation of these reviled insects. Signed San'aisanjin, meaning a hermit who loves music, drinking, and poetry, the print may have been designed by one of the poets who contributed one of the poems inscribed here. Japan, Asia
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