EditorialPolistes, Print, Wasps of the cosmopolitan genus Polistes (the only genus in the tribe Polistini) are the most familiar of the polistine wasps, and are the most common type of paper wasp in North America. It is also the single largest genus within the ...
EditorialGeisha looking up at a cuckoo, from the series "Five Annual Festivals for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika gosekku)". Katsushika Taito II; Japanese, active c. 1810-53. Date: 1822. Dimensions: 20.4 x 18.4 cm. Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimo...
EditorialThe New Yoshiwara Shin Yoshiwara (title on object) Ten summer scenes in the Eastern capital (series title) Azuma natsu jukkei (series title on object), View of room in teahouse, kamuro (youngest help of courtesan), standing outside the room, pointing u...
EditorialFirst Cuckoo of the Year at Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima, hatsu hototogisu), from the series "Famous Views of the Eastern Capital (Toto Meisho)". Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1826-1836. Dimensions: 24.3 x 37.5 cm (9 9/16 x 14 3/4 ...
EditorialGeisha looking up at a cuckoo, from the series "Five Annual Festivals for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika gosekku)". Katsushika Taito II; Japanese, active c. 1810-53. Date: 1822. Dimensions: 20.4 x 18.4 cm. Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimo...
EditorialA Flute-Playing Monk (Komuso); The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen).