Cat

So last Wednesday my wife is minding her business puttering around in the other room and my son comes in the room and I hear her talking in a low voice and after a while she goes HEY and I hear a plate smash and then the furniture sqreeeking and she’s yelling HEY HEY COME HERE YOU LITTLE and I get up from the computer and I’m walking down the hallway and she’s huffing and yelling I GOT YOU NOW YOU LITTLE SHIT and I’m speeding up and he’s yelling SKREEEEEEE but he’s moving really fast but she’s pinning both his hands(?) with one of hers and she’s huffing now and her black hair is plastered to her forehead with sweat but she’s holding on and her eyes are wild and she says she says: I GOT HIM I GOT HIM and would you look at that! it’s not our son it’s one of them cat demons that dress up and sneak up on you and I NEVER even seen one in real life so I go and make a woodcut print of the whole episode so we can remember and laugh about it later when we sit and sip a yuzu lemonade

This image is from the Royal Ontario Collection, it is called “Usugumo and the Demon Cat” and is from the series “Gekkō’s Miscellany”. I saw it at the Cat exhibition that’s currently on at the museum. Apparently this is a print of a cat demon that tried to impersonate this lady’s assistant, but she caught him.