The peddler who struck like lightning. Yang Lin earned his living selling goods from village to village, but his nickname "Multicoloured Leopard" spoke to speed, ferocity, the ability to explode into violence without warning. He was fast enough to earn that leopard comparison, deadly enough to make it stick. When the Liangshan outlaws needed someone recruited, they knew Yang Lin's combination of merchant respectability and predator instinct made him valuable.

Kuniyoshi captures him after the battle of Kotoshu - wind whipping his straw rain cloak into wild golden streamers that flow around him like a leopard's mane. He grips his hooked polearm, that wicked curved blade ready despite the fight being over. His ornate armor in blues, reds, and elaborate patterns is still intact, his expression fierce and alert as he makes his way home. Autumn leaves scatter through the wind, and that straw cloak catches every gust, turning practical peasant gear into something almost supernatural - all that golden fiber streaming behind him in the storm.

This is from Kuniyoshi's legendary 1827 Suikoden series. He had a gift for finding the perfect moment - not Yang Lin in the heat of battle, but after, walking home through wind and weather, still armed, still dangerous, that straw cloak transformed by motion into the very leopard his nickname evoked.

This is Yang Lin (楊林), the "Multicoloured Leopard" (錦豹子); known in Japan as Kinhyōshi Yōrin (錦豹子揚林), from the series Tsūzoku suikoden gōketsu hiyakuhachinin no hitori (通俗水滸伝豪傑百八人之一個, One of the 108 famous Water Margin heroes) 1827.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳, 1798-1861)