one sheet; woman with long, blowing hair, wearing green skirt with round floral patterns in brown and dark green, and red underskirt, with a large blue and yellow hair ornament, creating a breeze with a yellow and red fan on which a grey monkey wearing a green blouse and light green pants and brown boots, upside down, with a yellow staff

Momokawa Enkoku; Sun Wukong and Rasetsunyo, 1868, 1st lunar month

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This print shows the Monkey King Sun Wukong fighting with Princess Iron Fan, as in another print nearby. But this series of prints is about more than just the Monkey King’s exploits—it’s about storytelling in general. Listening to professional storytellers was a popular form of entertainment in Japan in the 19th century. Each print in this series is devoted to a famous storyteller, in this case Momokawa Enkoku (1851–1922), who was just 17 when this print was published.

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Details
Title
Momokawa Enkoku; Sun Wukong and Rasetsunyo
Artist Life
1839 - 1892
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.106.89
Catalogue Raisonne
Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 202.18; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), p. 286.
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one sheet; woman with long, blowing hair, wearing green skirt with round floral patterns in brown and dark green, and red underskirt, with a large blue and yellow hair ornament, creating a breeze with a yellow and red fan on which a grey monkey wearing a green blouse and light green pants and brown boots, upside down, with a yellow staff