Chasing Fireflies, A Lady of the Tenmei Era (1781-1789), from the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections
Medium
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Classification
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the Norman W. Zaworski Trust
Accession Number
2017.73
Tags
male
About this artwork
Each of the prints in the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections features a woman from a different time period, as befits an artist who was interested in history painting. Most of the prints are set in the Edo period (1615–1868). Mizuno Toshikata was a favored student of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), and took over his post as a newspaper illustrator.