Attributed to Utagawa Toyohiro, 歌川豊廣 (1773-1830), painting mounted as a kakemono depicting a sarumawashi, Japan, mid-Edo period Ink and polychrome on paper, depicting a learned monkey showman. Dressed in a red haori, he climbs up a thin bamboo tree, held by his master who looks on. He appears to be in a taru daiko (drum-shaped cask), at the foot of which a dog seems very interested in the scene. The painting is signed lower right Toyohiro ga, 豊廣画, with a very faded red seal. Width: 111 x 21 cm Accents and folds.