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Remar Games@remargames.se · 4d ago

Tower of Gold is coming November 1st! 🎉 It's a massive puzzle/action game with a first-person overworld full of characters and mysteries. I'll release a trailer alongside the game, but here's a small teaser in the meantime! #indiegames #indiedev

The Kimono Gallery@roger1952.bsky.social · 2d ago

This woodblock print, published in 1881 (Meiji 14), is a celebrated masterpiece of animal caricature (chōjū giga) from the landmark illustrated book "Kyōsai’s Manga" (Kyōsai Manga) by the legendary iconoclast and virtuoso artist Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889).

Sprawling across the page with wild, theatrical energy, a boisterous assembly of anthropomorphic frogs (kawazu) capers, spars, and parades in a chaotic celebration of animal caricature. Kyōsai’s fluid, expressive inkwork captures each creature in mid-action: near the top, a swaggering frog wears a broad, torn lotus leaf (hasu no ha) as a sunhat while gripping a reed like a drawn sword between its jaws; nearby, companions leap with splayed webbed feet, brandish lotus seedpods (renshō) as ceremonial staffs, or strut in leaf loincloths with inflated, boastful chests. Along the bottom, a procession unfolds as frogs carry heavy loads on shoulder poles and lean on walking sticks, their spotted skin accented by subtle washes of warm ochre against a cloud-mottled paper ground. The print radiates an exuberant sensory atmosphere: a chorus of resonant croaks reverberating through a damp riverbank, the wet slap of webbed feet on muddy earth, the crisp rustle of withered leaves, and the irreverent clamor of a secret amphibian festival unfolding in the marshland. Published in 1881 (Meiji 14) within the landmark illustrated book Kyōsai’s Manga (Kyōsai Manga), this woodblock print stands as a tour de force of chōjū-giga (frolicking animal caricatures) and kyōga ("crazy pictures") by the iconoclastic virtuoso Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889). Trained in both the classical Kanō school and the dynamic ukiyo-e tradition under Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Kyōsai possessed unmatched draftsmanship and satirical wit. Inheriting a long lineage traced back to the famous 12th-century Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga scrolls, Kyōsai deployed anthropomorphic frogs as comic surrogates to lampoon human vanity, samurai bravado, government bureaucracy, and the rapid social shifts of Meiji-era Japan.