- Artist or Maker
- Yōgetsu
Japan, active 1485 - Title
- Gibbon Reaching for the Reflection of the Moon
- Date Made
- early 16th century
- Period
- Muromachi Period (1392 - 1573)
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 26 1/2 × 15 in. (67.31 × 38.1 cm)
Mount: 60 3/4 × 20 3/8 in. (154.31 × 51.75 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.83.36
- Collecting Area
- Japanese Art
- Selected Bibliography
- Singer, Robert T., and Kawai Masatomo, editors. The Life of Animals in Japanese Art. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2019.
- Little, Stephen, and Tushara Bindu Gude. Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art across Asia. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2025.