Monkey reaches the reflection of the moon, Ishikawa Utayama, 1824 A monkey hangs with an arm on a branch of a pine and tries to grab the reflection of the moon. The performance is shown as if it is a standing space screen (tsuitate). Such a screen was usually placed directly behind the door of a house, to keep evil spirits out, because of the belief that they could only move in straight lines. With three poems. Japan paper color woodcut monkeys, apes

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