from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)

From the Kyôsai hyakuzu, this print likely depicts one of the Buddhist or Shinto deity subjects that recur throughout the series. Kyosai's sacred figures carry an irreverence absent from conventional religious imagery: Daruma sits squat and disgruntled, Hotei's belly distends with physical comedy, Emma-ô judges the dead with bureaucratic tedium. This approach — reverent in technical execution, gently satirical in conception — characterized Kyosai's relationship to religious subject matter across his career and drew both admiration and periodic official censure. The woodblock rendering reproduces Kyosai's ink brushwork in the key block, with color blocks adding limited tonal dimension on washi. The composition is likely compact, the figure filling most of the pictorial field with minimal landscape or architectural context.