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

This print from Kawanabe Kyōsai's series *One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai* (Kyôsai hyakuzu) shows a crowded, comic scene of caricatured figures in loose black outline with flat washes of blue, orange, grey, and green. In the upper register a seated man in a blue robe and black cap gestures with one hand toward a startled figure in a pale robe who throws up both hands with mouth open; below, a large figure in a patterned orange robe reclines beside a green rounded form while a grey figure sends a jagged yellow streak toward him, and at the bottom several grey-and-white dog-like creatures run and tumble over one another. Vertical text cartouches and a red circular seal sit in the upper corners of the cream-colored sheet.