standing figure with hair blowing in wind, holding a sword in mouth and a purple, red and yellow fan-like object above head, wearing gold bracelets and cream-colored kimono with purple and green floral rondels, with brown leg coverings; monkey dressed in green blouse, white pants, and red boots, with a red and yellow staff, in ULC, flipping through air

Sun Wukong Fights Rasetsunyo, 1864, 12th lunar month

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The Monkey King Sun Wukong is a main character in the classic Chinese novel The Journey to the West, and is seen here in a fight with the Princess Iron Fan over her magical fan. He needs this fan, which is capable of creating powerful winds that extinguish flames, so his party can cross the Flaming Mountains on their journey west.

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Title
Sun Wukong Fights Rasetsunyo
Artist Life
1839 - 1892
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.106.50
Catalogue Raisonne
Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 116.5; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), p. 20 no. 20, p. 289.
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standing figure with hair blowing in wind, holding a sword in mouth and a purple, red and yellow fan-like object above head, wearing gold bracelets and cream-colored kimono with purple and green floral rondels, with brown leg coverings; monkey dressed in green blouse, white pants, and red boots, with a red and yellow staff, in ULC, flipping through air