Japanese Print "Firefly - Genji Gojuyo Jo" by Toyohara Kunichika
Artist:Toyohara Kunichika
Title:Firefly - Genji Gojuyo Jo
Date:1884.
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Source:artelino - Japanese Prints
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"Genji Goju-yo Jo" (The contemporary Fifty-four Feelings) no. 25. "Hotaru". The word, Genji, is punned with the Tale of Genji. The popular Genji subjects were applied to the modern-day scenes. A girl is showing some fireflies in her insect cage.
![Japanese Print "No. 25, Hotaru, from the series The Fifty-four Chapters [of the Tale of Genji] in Modern Times (Genji gojûyo jô)" by Toyohara Kunichika, 豊原国周 (Toyohara Kunichika)](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/mfa/thumbs/sc187892.jpg "No. 25, Hotaru, from the series The Fifty-four Chapters [of the Tale of Genji] in Modern Times (Genji gojûyo jô)")