From the Thicket, a Pole (Yabu kara bô): Monkey and the Seven Sages (Son Gokû, Shichikenjin), from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)
- Series:
- One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- mfa
Description
A print from the "One Hundred Pictures by Kyosai" series with a title translating as "From the Thicket, a Pole" — a Japanese proverb meaning an unexpected development from an unlikely source — featuring the monkey king Son Goku alongside the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. The juxtaposition of Chinese sage-scholars with the trickster monkey hero of the Journey to the West creates a comic collision between high Confucian culture and popular fiction that is quintessential Kyosai: learned, irreverent, and visually arresting.
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Frequently Asked Questions
From the Thicket, a Pole (Yabu kara bô): Monkey and the Seven Sages (Son Gokû, Shichikenjin), from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu) was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).
Yes — From the Thicket, a Pole (Yabu kara bô): Monkey and the Seven Sages (Son Gokû, Shichikenjin), from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu) is part of the One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai series by Kawanabe Kyosai.
From the Thicket, a Pole (Yabu kara bô): Monkey and the Seven Sages (Son Gokû, Shichikenjin), from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu) depicts animals.