Comment - An angy women is poking a customer in a green garment with a long paintbrush stick, held by someone who sits behind her neck. Scattered painting utensil are on the ground. The women tears a Lion Dancer at his black whig. The  one in the red Dancing Lion's costume is stumbling down. He holds a whiteish folded fan with the kanji character "upwards" ("上"), while falling down.
Center left is a boy, holding a large Edo Kaku kite ("Edo-kaku", "江戸角") with a red sun symbol of the Japanese flag on a white and blue square patterned background, a design, often seen elsewhere (cf. Chikanobu, Ginko, Kaburagi,  Kobayashi, etc.). The Edo kite is seen from the backside, as to be seen on the upper kite's rim tightening bridle. The kiteline leds to a boy in blue garment on the lower right. He is carrying a green basket with the kite line knotted to it. Maybe one of these baskets used for carrying kitelines during kite flying (fighting) events. On the other end of the kite line, behind the boy holding the kite, the kite line is entangled at a great mess. The kiteline loops have caught the garment of the angry women on left top. Maybe one of the reasons for her anger, or exaggerating the trouble.
The foreground is dominated by a man sitting on the ground, offering something to a smiling toddler who is held by his mom on her lap. Behind her is a man sitting on the ground in front of a tablet, preparing or arranging small cups.


Series -  "One Hundred Pictures by Kyōsai" ("Kyōsai hyakuzu", "暁斎百図"). Print from Kyosai's comic series "One Hundred Pictures by Kyosai." These amusing views illustrate humorous mishaps and incidents, poking fun at everyday life or imagining encounters with supernatural creatures. Several subjects feature animals in the guise of humans, such as birds dressed in kimono or foxes taunting men. A student of Kuniyoshi, Kyosai was known as a master of comic and satiric designs. Finely drawn with a realistic attention to detail.


Artist - see Biography


Signature - Kyōsai ga (狂斎画) next to his red calabash seal


Publisher -  Wakasaya Yoichi (若狭屋與市), Wakabayashi-dō Publisher's (若林堂), no seal (by provenance)


Image Size - 18.5 x 12.6 cm   (7 5/16" x 4 15/16")


Condition - single panel; e-hon (cloured woodblock print book); Vertical yotsugiri (quarter ôban), page singled out from book;