Description
A Showa-period (1950s) shin-hanga, stamped and signed, themed after Hakuin Ekaku’s famous poem “Monkey is reaching”:
THE MONKEY IS REACHING
The monkey is reaching
For the moon in the water.
Until death overtakes him
He’ll never give up.
If he’d let go the branch and
Disappear in the deep pool,
The whole world would shine
With dazzling pureness.
The size of a sheet “oban”: ca. 38 x 26 cm
