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The photograph shows a sarumawashi with his performing monkey. These itinerant entertainers were still active into the Meiji Period.
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MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
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A FINE SILVER, GOLD, COPPER AND SHAKUDO OJIME OF A SARUMAWASHI AND HIS MONKEY
Meiji Period (Late 19th Century)
The figure of the sarumawashi [monkey-trainer] and his monkey mostly of silver, the travelling roll of the trainer of gold and the coat of the monkey, copper, with a mon inlaid in gold, the trainer's trousers and leggings inlaid in shakudo with a lozenge design, the body of the drum in shakudo and the drumstick in copper
1.9cm. wide
Meiji Period (Late 19th Century)
The figure of the sarumawashi [monkey-trainer] and his monkey mostly of silver, the travelling roll of the trainer of gold and the coat of the monkey, copper, with a mon inlaid in gold, the trainer's trousers and leggings inlaid in shakudo with a lozenge design, the body of the drum in shakudo and the drumstick in copper
1.9cm. wide
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