Frog with ranunculus branch, A square porcelain dish as a cage for a frog, with behind it a branch of an ranunculus. With one poem whose signature is partially cut off: Although the spring rain falls all day long, you can hear the lonely frog croaking from under its raincoat of whip, tailless amphibians: frog, Ch?tei Hisazumi (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1810 - c. 1820, paper, colour woodcut, h 192 mm ⊙ w 171 mm.