Muzane cruel pictures and Chimidoroe bloody pictures together constitute a significant strand of ukiyoe the populist art of late Edoperiod Japan. The most famous example of this genre remains Eimei Nijuhasshuku 1868 by the artists Yoshitoshi and Yoshiiku. Yoshiikus violent contributions to this series are matched in horror by many other of his prints ranging from newssheet illustrations of misogynistic murder to kabuki scenes of torture and images of warriors harvesting severed heads in bat