Listening to Insects at Dōkan Hill

Utagawa Hiroshige, Listening to Insects at D ō kan Hill , from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital, 1835-1845 This is one of the prints that was on display in the British Museum's exhibition Hiroshige: artist of the open road last year. Lafcadio Hearn published an essay on 'insect musicians' and the listening practices surrounding them in his collection Exotics and Retrospectives…