KIKUKAWA EIZAN (1787-1867)

This print depicts a woman with a feather brush gently removing newly hatched silkworms from a sheet of paper used for their incubation. After hatching mid-March, the silkworms are then placed in trays filled with chopped mulberry leaves on which to feed.

For another impression in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. RES.54.187.38, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/536329/no-1-from-the-series-silkworm-cultivation-kaiko-yashinai