Brilliant and sensitive, playful and intimate, the illustrations from Utamaro's masterpiece Ehon Mushi Erabi (A Selection of Insects) are considered a highlight of woodblock printmaking. As a lover of nature from childhood, Utamaro based these realistic designs on his observations from the garden. Softly colored and exquisitely rendered with an elegant arrangement of space, each insect and flower print by Utamaro is a double page design with an accompanying humorous kyoka verse. Ronin Gallery is pleased to present these Japanese nature prints, as well as other glimpses of insect life in the exhibition A Small World..