「狂斎百狂」 「だふけ百万編」

This is a second impression or variant state of the 'Dafuke Hyakumanben' design from the 'Kyōsai Hyakkyō' series, sharing the composition and satirical content of kawanabe-kyosai--32. The print parodies the hyakumanben nembutsu ritual — communal recitation aided by a large rosary passed among assembled devotees — by rendering religious devotion as comic physical inertia. The Hyakkyō series demonstrated that the woodblock print medium remained a sharp instrument for social and religious satire well into the Meiji era. Differences between this impression and its pair may be detected in ink density, color blocking quality, or progressive block wear affecting the crispness of Kyosai's line. His satirical print style synthesizes the academic brushwork discipline acquired under the Kanō master Maemura Tōwa with the popular print tradition's expressive facial exaggeration absorbed through study under Utagawa Kuniyoshi — a combination that gives his comic figures both technical refinement and populist legibility.