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A large monkey dressed in orange robes with green and gold accents and boots walks forward facing left.　

The monkey steps forward in three-quarter view, bent slightly at the waist, holding a long pole behind his back with left arm, while his right arm is upraised. From his open palm a release of golden solider-like monkeys with spears in various poses float toward the upper left. His eyes look toward them with open mouth. The foreground is light green, with water flowers floating as it meets the dark background with calligraphy written in vertical lines from upper right to lower left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1716
People
Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Japanese (1786? - 1868)
Title
The Monkey King Sun Wukong (Jp. Songokū)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print, surimono
Date
1824
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207906

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban: H. 20.6 cm x W. 18.7 cm (8 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Gakutei

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.1716
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore Robert Bowie and James T. Kenney, Art of the Surimono, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, IN, 1979), Cat. No. 032 / p. 65

Exhibition History

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