An amusing Japanese padded-silk panel, Oshi-e, 19th century, depicting a procession of forty insects including grasshoppers, praying mantises, ants and other bugs, in relief and made up of paper and folded fabric on a painted ground sprinkled with gold, the insects recreating a daimyo procession, a two character signature to one corner 'Eigetsu' and a red seal mark, in its original frame embellished with green fabric and floral designs in tsuishu, Meiji Period, 55cm x 95.5cm.See the Whyte Museum, Canada, access. no.SeP.15.01 for another example of an insect's daimyo procession by Sakurai Seppo (1753-1824).

fading and staining and some losses visible but unexamined under the glass please see additional images for visual reference to condition