The Troublesome Baggage at Hoten-fu (Hoten-fu no niyakkai, 奉天府の荷厄介).

This satirical woodblock by Kobayashi Kiyochika caricatures a frantic Chinese peddler in Hoten-fu (Fengtian), a Qing stronghold seized by Japan in 1894 during the Sino-Japanese War.
Burdened with scrolls, cages, and drums, the man races forward while another hawker follows, embodying the chaos and pressure of wartime requisitioning. The accompanying text mocks his load as “troublesome baggage.” Kiyochika enhances the scene`s comic impact through bold brushwork, dramatic foreshortening, and an empty background that isolates the figure`s mad dash.