Many of the misemono at Ryôgoku were participatory, whether crude--such as blowing through a bamboo tube up the skirts of a heavily made-up "beauty" placed on a pedestal--or skillful, as in this case of an archery game. Among the monsters serving as targets, the dragon on the far right appears to have been animated. Intricate haunted houses and displays of automatons called "iki-ningyô" or "living dolls" were among the most popular attractions from in the nineteenth century and attest to the level of interest in clever mechanical devices and the macabre--perhaps a forerunner of the futuristic "mecha" so prominent in today's manga and anime?