One Hundred Pictures by Kyōsai (Kyōsai hyakuzu)

A collected edition or representative selection from the celebrated "One Hundred Pictures by Kyosai" series, published in 1878, which presented one hundred compositions across every genre of Kyosai's art. The series had been a landmark publishing event — a comprehensive statement by Japan's most controversial living artist at a moment when his reputation was at its height. The range across one hundred prints is staggering: Buddhist imagery, satirical caricature, animal studies, warrior portraits, supernatural scenes, and lyrical landscapes all appear.