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Women and Children Catching Fireflies
(Japan and Korea )
Ladies in elegant kimonos and elaborate coiffures enjoy themselves catching fireflies with their children in the Kenrokuen Garden, in Kanazawa. The color and fluidity of movement of the five small figures arrayed across the foreground set them apart from the plain, stylized landscape. The Kenrokuen Garden can still be visited today; the decorative lantern on the right adorns the same bridge after 200 years.
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Provenance
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Justine Lewis Keidel [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by gift.
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
10 1/4 x 15 1/16 in. (26 x 38.3 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1986
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
95.170