[Machine Translation] This shocking work depicts the fierce, devilish life of a Kamigata performer who, in order to please his customers, developed the astonishing art of hanging a number of smoking pipes (kiseru) from the pockmarks of his face, which were caused by smallpox. Bakyo Katsura: At the end of the Meiji period, Bakyo Katsura became more popular than the other rakugo performers at the Osaka Yose theater. However, when Bakyo Katsura contracted smallpox, he was left with a cruel, pockmarked face. With his persistence in his art, Katsura Bakyo created a performance that no one else could imitate. He hung smoking pipes from his distorted, pockmarked face. Every day, he increased the number of pipes he hung, and in order to gain popularity among the audience, he fasted to deepen the hollows in his face, even if it was just one pipe. After hanging dozens of smoking pipes, Katsura Bakyo died at the age of 35.