The Old Badger from the series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts"

A samurai in indigo trousers and a pale robe crouches beneath a wooden ladder, gripping its rungs as tangled cords, straw sandals, and a shaggy pink-and-gold pelt-like mass spill across the frame; a badger with an open red mouth crouches at bottom right, and a pine branch and pale moon fill the upper background. The composition is dense and diagonal, dominated by the crossed wooden ladder poles and streaming red and cream fringe, with a muted palette of indigo, tan, and grey set against the moonlit night sky. This is "The Old Badger," from Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts," a color woodblock print, 1889.