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

The thirty-fifth entry in the Kyosai hyakuzu, this print represents one design within the anthology's hundred-subject project. By the mid-numbered sheets, the hyakuzu has established the full tonal range of Kyosai's practice, and individual prints are legible both as stand-alone compositions and as elements in a cumulative portrait of an artist. This sheet may take up a Buddhist subject — Fudo Myo-o, a bodhisattva, or a narrative from the Jataka tales — rendered in the devotional idiom that Kyosai absorbed from temple painting commissions throughout his career. His Buddhist figures carry a formal gravity distinct from the irreverence of his demon and yokai work, though even in sacred subjects there is a tension between inherited iconographic form and Kyosai's tendency to animate figures through expressive distortion. Printed in multiple color blocks on oban-format washi, the sheet demonstrates the late-Edo woodblock printing technique at a moment of sustained technical accomplishment.