The hour of the monkey Elegant representations of the twelve hours (series title) Furyu junitoki (series title on object), Two women and a child walking among flowering trees, woman with a blossom branch in hands looking up at a cartouche at the top right, in which a monkey, referring to the time between four and six o'clock in the afternoon, in the background a bell tower of a temple. Torii Kiyonaga (mentioned on object), Japan, 1785 - 1789, paper, colour woodcut, h 223 mm ⊙ w 158 mm.