Monkey reaches for the reflection of the moon, A monkey hangs with an arm on a branch of a pine tree and tries to grab the reflection of the moon. The performance is depicted as if it were a standing room screen (tsuitate). Such a screen was usually placed directly behind the door of a house to keep out evil spirits, because of the belief that they could only move in straight lines. With three poems, monkeys, apes, Ishikawa Utayama (mentioned on object), Japan, 1824, paper, colour woodcut, h 198 mm × w 175 mm
Monkey reaches for the reflection of the moon, A monkey hangs with an arm on a branch of a pine tree and tries to grab the reflection of the moon. The performance is depicted as if it were a standing room screen (tsuitate). Such a screen was usually placed directly behind the door of a house to keep out evil spirits, because of the belief that they could only move in straight lines. With three poems, monkeys, apes, Ishikawa Utayama (mentioned on object), Japan, 1824, paper, colour woodcut, h 198 mm × w 175 mm
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