Hunting for Fireflies

Melinda Takeuchi, Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of Art History at Stanford University, discusses the coded meanings behind a woodblock print in the Asian Art Museum’s collection.

View all the videos in this series on woodblock prints from the exhibition The Printer’s Eye: Ukiyo-e from the Grabhorn Collection:

1. Street scene in the Pleasure Quarter of Edo Japan
2. Courtesans of the South Station
3. Courtesan playing with a cat
4. Hunting for Fireflies
5. The actor Ichikawa Danzo IV in a Shibaraku role
6. Genji Ukifune