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This is a painting on a 2-fold screen with gold dust. The subject is two human figures and a monkey. The background is covered in gold dust. On the leftmost panel is one figure and above him to the left is an inscription, the author's name. Following the writing is a small red seal. The figure is sitting down and smiling towards the right holding a string. On the right panel is the monkey and a person behind it. The monkey is wearing human-like clothes and stands on its hind legs. The person behind it follows and laughs. Although this man is wearing a hat, he is wearing white clothes similar to the man behind him on the other panel. The monkey wears red and a hat.  
Yamawaki Tōki
Monkey Performance
1800 – 1849
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1987/2.44
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