(解説文要約)
明治30年代初期の伝説の悪党を描いた作品です。
72リットルの酒が入った樽と空の樽を両手に持ち、
どちらが空か当ててみろと力を見せつけていたそうです。
しかし、常に弱いものをいじめる、手におえない悪党だったようです。
そんな悪党も寝ているときに、蚊帳の紐を切られ、蚊帳にくるまれた状態で青年に刺し殺されたそうです。
In this painting, a legendary villain around 1897 is depicted.
The man reportedly showed off his power by holding a 72 liter barrel full of sake in his one hand and an empty one in the other hand to demand others to guess which was empty.
However, he was seemingly an unruly villain to always bully the weak.
It is said that even such a man was stabbed to death by a young man while sleeping wrapped in his mosquito net,
whose hangers were cut by the murderer.