Ōtsu-e were cheap, quickly painted pictures sold to travelers at Ōtsu, a post town on the Tōkaidō highway near Lake Biwa, from the 17th century onward. Their painters worked fast, with broad brushstrokes and a few flat colors, repeating a stock set of popular subjects that served as souvenirs, charms and gentle jokes. This eight-fold screen, made around 1850, mounts eight such pictures, one to a panel, on a gray paper ground inside a red lacquer frame. Among them are two warriors, a footman carrying a lance with a feathered tip, a monkey trying to pin down a catfish with a gourd, a blind man whose sash is pulled by a small dog, the Wisteria Maiden with a poem written beside her, a falconer, and the thunder god fishing for his lost drum from the clouds with an anchor. The pictures are painted in ink and color on paper; together they measure 43 × 248 cm.

The screen belongs to the Art Institute of Chicago.