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Trained Monkey Performing with Jingle and Gohei
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A dancing monkey with a striped cap, bells in its left hand and a staff with strips of paper (gohei) in its right hand. The monkey dances a Sanbasô dance. The print is also a calendar print: the numbers of the long months are written on the staff. With one poem.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineTrained Monkey Performing with Jingle and Gohei. 1824. Totoya Hokkei. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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