Girl

The slug element "saru" (monkey) suggests this print depicts a young girl with a monkey motif — likely a child holding a kukurizaru cloth-monkey charm, a saru-mawashi performing monkey toy, or a girl associated with the zodiac year of the monkey, all common subjects in late Meiji and Taisho-era prints aimed at family audiences. Eiho's training in nihonga shows in the careful ink-line drawing of the figure, with the kimono pattern likely rendered through layered [nishiki-e](/glossary/nishiki-e) color blocks and the face built up through the soft [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations Watanabe Shozaburo's workshop refined for [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) sensibilities. Children appear less often than bijin in Eiho's print output, but his parallel career as an illustrator for popular novels and newspapers gave him fluency in capturing momentary, narrative gesture — a child caught in play rather than posed for portraiture. The image fits within the broader Taisho interest in nostalgia for traditional childhood pastimes, a current that ran through Yumeji's work and the [kuchi-e](/glossary/kuchi-e) frontispieces Eiho produced for literary magazines, where the boundary between print design and book illustration remained productively porous throughout his career.