Comic manifold worship of buddha
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
A satirical print depicting worshippers paying comic homage to a Buddha figure, one of the recurring targets of Kyosai's irreverent wit. Kyosai produced numerous works that found humor in religious practice — not from hostility to Buddhism, but from his conviction that even sacred subjects could be examined with a laughing eye. The composition likely features exaggerated devotees in absurd attitudes of worship, rendered with the fluid brushwork that made Kyosai's comic prints among the most technically accomplished in the history of Japanese caricature.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Comic manifold worship of buddha was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).
Comic manifold worship of buddha depicts temples & shrines and religious.