Monkey

This small etching by Masaki Sugimoto (date unknown) is printed in black ink on cream, deckle-edged paper. The image shows a dense, roughly rounded mass of scribbled cross-hatching filling the upper-center of the small rectangular plate, its shaggy, irregular texture suggesting the print's titled subject, a monkey; beneath it, sparser curved and angular lines outline a slender wooden structure resembling a chair or perch, with a solid dark shape at lower left and tighter cross-hatching in the upper right corner. The work is rendered entirely in monochrome, with no color and no legible background setting beyond these spare linear marks.