Cone-headed Grasshopper or Locust, (batta); Praying Mantis (Tōrō or Kamakiri), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)

People: Kitagawa, Utamaro
Time: 1788
Owner Organization: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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