A female monkey trainer watching her monkey perform the sanbaso dance, a standing screen, tsuitate, behind her. On the screen a painting of the rising sun and pines.
The emblem of one of the poets - probably the first, within a fan-shaped cartouche, suggesting an affiliation with the Yomogawa - can be seen on the monkey trainer’s clothes and on the wrapped package in front of the screen. It therefore seems likely that the woman in the design represents the poet Kaneko Hisamori whose poem appears on the print.
For the sanbaso dance, see RP-P-1995-303 and RP-P-1999-290.
Three poems by Kaneko Hisamori, Kasumi no Itsuko and Buntsusha Yasumaru. The poem by Yasumaru alludes to ‘dancing at the beginning of the Monkey Year’.
Issued by the poets
Signature reading: Keisai
