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Monkey Reaching for the Moon's Reflection
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A monkey hangs by one arm from a branch of a pine tree and tries to grab the reflection of the moon. The representation 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 evil spirits out, due to the belief that they could only move in straight lines. With three poems.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMonkey Reaching for the Moon's Reflection. 1824. Ishikawa Utayama. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
