Artist: Toyohara Kunichika
Title: Firefly - Genji Gojuyo Jo
Date: 1884.
Details & Prices: Toyohara Kunichika: Firefly - Genji Gojuyo Jo - Artelino
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Description:
"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.
![Toyohara Kunichika: No. 25, Hotaru, from the series The Fifty-four Chapters [of the Tale of Genji] in Modern Times (Genji gojûyo jô) - Museum of Fine Arts](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/mfa/thumbs/sc187892.jpg "Toyohara Kunichika: No. 25, Hotaru, from the series The Fifty-four Chapters [of the Tale of Genji] in Modern Times (Genji gojûyo jô) - Museum of Fine Arts")